It’s legal. I’ve never gotten as many as I have this year though.

They carved out an exception for themselves in junk call/junk text laws.

I've never understood why they think I would reward then with a vote after they intentionally ignore my Do Not Call list status. Seems pretty ignorant.

It's very bad. I get 2 and sometimes up to 4 a day

Agreed… I’d imagine there are very few people, if any, that appreciate these messages.

I haven’t lived permanently in the state for years now and they still find a way to reach me.

I got the one from Arora; the "moderate pro-choice republican" who voted against the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act.

I know I'm yelling at a machine, but it's nice to use some vocabulary that otherwise collects dust when responding.

I usually send back a dick pic and they don't bother me anymore.

Yup just got one for Hugh Shine. Never heard of him.

As another person who has had to deal with Dan Champagne do very little for the last few years, except collect yet another paycheck from government and once say the quiet part out loud about making it harder to search vehicles, I feel your pain. The text message from him was the most I’ve heard from him in months.

I might start doing this one

Yes, I’ve gotten a few in the last couple of days from republicans. I STOP and block.

Nope, I would say it helps having a RI area code number (the closest Cingular dealer to me was in RI when I got my first cell phone, its been a while...) but I don't get anything from Rhode Island political groups either.

Somehow I lucked out and get utterly ignored by both sides. In both states.

Please, someone, get the people from Pennsylvania to stop texting me. I do not live there. I want them to go away.

They're even filling up my reddit feed.

Oh, wait...

Yup 😣

I’m up to 5 today since noon.

Yeah man. I moved away in 2020. Thought they would've stopped by now

Makes me highly consider not voting for them, even though it's legal. There are candidates that don't do this

I recognize the futility of doing so, but i always text them back, "Eat shit and go fuck yourself." I know its just a bot sending them but it makes me feel better

Best way to lose your job or go to jail or go on sex offender list, esp if the one sending the text is a volunteer college student. Please don't send dick to volunteer staff. Send it to your Dad.

I've gotten 5 calls alone today, 4 text messages.

I don't even live in the same state as my area code anymore so I'm getting all these political spams for people I can't even vote for.

Yeah, I'm getting several of these texts a day. I just delete and block the numbers.

I got one saying "Hi, you live at (insert address here)? Your polling place is (insert address here)" with a map pointing where it is. Very creepy

They don’t stop lately I’ve been getting atleast 4 a day for over a month. Theyre adressed to a different name, and at the end all say reply stop to opt out… it never freakin works

I want the people from ct to go away and I do live here. I just stop and block tho it's the easiest

I don't even waste my time sending "stop" which takes 5 seconds, a dick pic would be too much coordination

This is even worse. It makes me want to change my number and never list it anywhere

i'm feeling left out, i don't get any.

I had a guy stop by my house last week for someone who doesn't even live there anymore

I got all the treasurer candidates today and just assumed because I’m studying accounting I got put on some sort of finance nerd watch list. Glad to see I’m not the only one suffering

Ugh yes! Multiple a day for weeks now and today k got a phone call. Annoying af

I like to respond by sending photos of feces

A lot!! Especially from this Bob guy.

So, so many. Hundreds in the past month, literally... from tight elections in many states.

All the damn time lately 😣

5 text messages and 7 calls today alone are way to excessive.

I got maybe 5 or 6 today alone all of them saying I shouldn't vote for Blumenthal

Hes also a nimby and is opposed to affordable housing bleh

When you become a registered democrat or republican, you are agreeing to get texted by your party candidates. Read the documents that came in with your registration.

That is very odd. You’d think they’d realize people get it, we see political ads every second of every day. We get it, it’s Election Day soon and I’m going to vote. I doubt Pestering people who are on the fence is really going to sway someone to go, especially with “I know where you live” type messages.

I’ve gotten so many this time around! It’s annoying.

Constantly

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my wife and I noticed we are getting these calls at the exact same time.

Forward the message to 7726 (spam)

I've done that too.

This makes me so glad that I’ve remained unaffiliated since I was 18

Cool..so I'm not registered to either party..at least I don't so nor do I care to be part of it

Plenty of them. I believe I remember a few recent ones from Jim Himes and Dick Blumenthal. Deleted them right away. I'll never know how they got my cell number since I've never been a supporter of either of them. 🤷‍♂️

There hasn't even been a point to sending 'stop', they text me from a different number every time.

I'm at 8. I stopped answering all calls weeks ago.

Oh and I was hoping to get a response to my text back 🤦‍♂️

I guess I should conclude they’re pro congress actively trading stocks, and I’m against that.

Yeah, I’m on a 212 and while I get a fair amount of spam from national candidates asking for money I barely get anybody asking me to vote for anything.

Nope, none.

Did you hear he’s very tall? A lot of people don’t know that.

I’ve only gotten texts from Republicans, which makes sense in CT, they’re not the incumbent party, so they have nothing to loose.

This is literally impossible. You registered and that's why you are getting the texts. Take the L, instead of doubling down.

Oh wow, I'm very surprised 🤯

I was an unaffiliated voter in CT, and I get them constantly. I moved to Florida where I am an unaffiliated voter and I get them constantly. Texts from two states, every day. And phone calls. The Desantis campaign calls every other day.

I actually checked on CT's site and I show as unaffiliated. So, it is possible. I clearly can't stop the messages but I refuse to join either shitty party

YES!! Wayyy too many of them. Can't wait for Wednesday when all of this shameless pandering goes away. Then they go back to completely ignoring us peons.

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Then why are Reps and Dems both calling and texting me..

I have like 2000 unread texts, so they don't bother me.

I dunno who he is but I GOTTA vote for a guy named Dan Champagne!!!

Yeah, like all the time, and they're from the opposing party too! I think they're talking to my dad, who's a Republican cuz I keep on getting these stupid voicemails from Paul Christi telling me to work Republican even tho I'm literally a registered Democrat

I did get a funny one recently though, that just had an image that said "Say NO to Dick" referring to Senator Blumenthal, but out of context, it's fucking hilarious lol

SO. Many.

How can Dan Champagne be both the Mayor of Vernon and a State Senator?

> It’s legal.

It's "legal", but my response is ALWAYS:

> "Thank you for your unsolicited message. If you contact me again, regardless of party affiliation, I will personally convince 50 people NOT to vote for your candidate. This will be my last communication."

Works every time, and has for over a decade.

Every time I text stop to opt out like 3 more spring up it’s insane

They also somehow got my info mixed up with my parents so I’m getting messages about candidates in a town I don’t live in

I'm not registered with a party and I get them. I never agreed to sharing of my personal data.

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I’ve been getting them mostly from republicans and I have no idea how or why. I am annoyed enough when Dems text me, republicans texting me makes me real mad.

I don’t think they’re all machines. People do text banking.

Not only are you wrong about agreeing to texts by registering with a party but even if you were right I am a registered Dem and 9/10 texts I’ve been getting are for Republican candidates.

Stop making things up.

Nope. Not registered either yet I get texts from multiple idiot candidates.

Somehow also get some for Texas candidates for a voter named Barbara.

They don’t ever stop.

Luckily my phone filters them out, still super annoying. How did they get my number?

And everything to tight!

Not familiar with this candidate, but I'm independent so hopefully you can you answer THE deciding factor for me:

Is he tall?

Oh, so that is what “moderate” is. Cute

I’ve only got a couple this year but I’ not in the Hayes/Logan battle zone

I got one from an org that wants to help me find my polling location. I know my location but almost wanted to text back yes to see if they sent me to the wrong one

Also got a whacked right wing parents rights/ school text with video about sex education from Passct dot org

He listed "criminal defense background" as one of the cons of his opponent.

A Republican not wanting someone familiar with the law in office? Same as it ever was.

Yup got two from republicans at like 7pm. Replied succinctly with my feelings on the matter.

I wish there was as much information online about local candidates as there is about national candidates. But I suppose it is easier to meet local candidates in person. Makes spam unnecessary.

I've gotten some from other states, even. I think I'm on some extensive spam call list though

I'm not saying I support it at all, I can only understand in the context of trying to reach a audience. I'm in sales and no matter what way I've conducted myself it's always as invasive. Send an email? How dare they! Call them? How dare they! Leave a voicemail? How dare they! Network through one of their friends or vendors? How dare they! Cold call them at their work? How dare they! (I did office supply sales/restaurant sales this was the only way.) All I'm getting at is; people don't want to listen regardless if it's good or bad for them. Everyone hates everyone and nobody cares.

Guy collects 2 gov paychecks!

You really think you’re the only special person?

Yes, it is ridiculous! I got 25 different election spam text, yesterday. There should be a law against them!

Yeah, all the time. Even though I moved to MA this summer.

It’s been insane! I’m saving the numbers and I’m going to start sending bull crap messages back after the election is over!

Yea, constantly these days. It’s very frustrating because I already had a ton of notifications for work and school normally. I know it’s not hard to block, but it’s just one more little thing and it adds up…

Three, at least at one point. Mayor of Vernon. Vernon Police. CT State Senate.

Perhaps the whole Mayor of Vernon and CT State Senate at the same time is why many people didn’t think he represented them.

I mean i would actually prefer someone with a background in handling money over criminal defense for state treasurer specifically. Thats basically the only thing he has a point on. The rest is not in his favor

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I am registered as independent and boy does this piss off both parties. I get calls and texts and mail its stupid.

That one made me pause for a second for some reason and I decided to read more about him, then got mad that he was advertising himself as pro-choice when his voting record was right there for me to look at.

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There is, but the FCC exempted political campaigns from it.

I really hate these messages. They do NOTHING for me, don't influence or inform me in any way, shape or form. They are a nuisance to put it politely.

Yes and they think my name is Mary

No

FYI, voter rolls and party registrations are public information, as is whether you voted in past elections (obviously not who you voted for, just that you signed for a ballot). There are companies that will send texts out for candidates, and identify whether people are registered R or D or independent, whether they voted recently, etc. How they scrape your phone number is a bit opaque. I always vote but never get the texts. My spouse gets the texts all the time.

I've never been hit this hard by Republicans. Its like a 10:1 ratio and most of them aren't even about races I could vote i its a real shotgun approach.

Yeah its been frustrating

I block and report as spam

I've gotten a bunch from the MAGA candidates in my area and I told them all to "Fuck off, magat" only the Dems message me now. I am glad the election is pretty much over as I didn't have the heart to tell them to leave me alone.

Between the calls and texts to my unpublished cellphone number I've had enough of the Republican party. Think I'm going to register as a republican after this voting cycle just so they'll leave me alone .... and then not vote for them.

Non stop to where i feel like hiring a lawyer ! So goddamn tired of it

It's an automated system, they will never see your response.

Even if you text "stop", that only applies to that particular election cycle.

Do yourself a favor and re-register to vote https://voterregistration.ct.gov/

I recently moved and chose to leave the phone number field blank. I have gotten absolutely zero texts this election cycle, compared to dozens in the past.

And this is why I sucked at sales and only lasted a year (this was over 30 years ago). I had empathy for the people not wanting to be called upon and bothered. So I didn't bother them and didn't make any sales...

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It's a hard line to balance on...depends on what industry it is for me. I can't do residential fuck that no way I'm bothering people at their homes. The only time when I pressed people is when I had a solution to a problem they had and wouldnt respond at all (had a case of this happen to a BIG company in CT and since they never took my call it fucked the company up and got the CEO fired) so there is some validity to needing to pick up those calls at some point). Sort of like that comic where they are pushing a square wheel saying "IM TOO BUSY" while the guy is offering them a circle wheel. It's a battle of ignorance I deal with on a daily basis. But with that being said, alot of sales people can be ignorant too.

Also too I like to use as a reference is "why did we go through the industrial revolution? Because someone eventually said there is a better way to do things and people listened."