"............yeah? I interviewed at a hair place once. Didn't take me, though."

"Huh." There are people gathered. "Have y'all voted? You should, you get a planet if you vote and you don't get a planet if you don't vote, that's, like, a shitton of power and you are gonna be great with it."

"Power?" says a purple man with a baby.

"To decide yes planet or no planet."

"Yeah but we're purple."

"They're not allowed to weight this one, 'cause aliens," says Cahmro, "you get the same vote as the emergency president."

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people," Dave says. "None of the fucking blue bullshit where the people who keep the country running can't be trusted with picking who runs it."

Purples fill out ballots.

Good. They can have a ride to Elendil and Dave can come back for more.

At one point Adro texts Cahmro and he has to run and deal with his brother.

" - want a ride home -"

"I'm just there, no big, be back soon." Run run.

Dave hangs around the bus waiting.

Purples (mostly) wander by.

"You should vote!" Dave says to wandering purples. "There aren't enough votes and it's not weighted."

"What do you mean not enough votes?"

"More than half of people have to be in favor. If no purples vote, then even if every single person who votes is in favor, that's a no, because they look at it and they're like 'half your population didn't even vote, we don't know what they want, maybe they're all against it'."

Purples fill out ballots.

"You can take them home for your family, too, everyone can vote, kids can vote."

"How young?" asks somebody with a one year old.

"If they're old enough to fill it out themselves it'll get counted. They have magic counting so if you have to fill it out for 'em it'll just get recorded as you submitting two and only one of them counts if you submit two."

"Don't they care that we'll tell 'em which box?"

"The idea is parents getting a little extra weight is better than saying some people shouldn't vote, and the kids get practice at their civic responsibilities. What my mom and dad did for me was they said 'we're voting on joining the aliens. Daddy's voting yes because he thinks there'll be more trucking and more money. Mommy's voting yes because she thinks the aliens were good stopping the Yeerks. You can vote however you want' and then I said yes too but I felt like I was choosing."

Parents take extras for their kids and grandkids and niblings and neighbors.

Dave tells them all that they're cool and should hit him up if they want to drive teleporting buses after Calado's a member state

Does it pay well?