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PSA: Do not use your real phone number on the voter registration card.

shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Fucking campaign assholes keep calling me.
I do not want them to call me.
I NEVER wanted them to call me.
Apparently the simple act of putting your phone number on the voter registration card legally entitles individual campaign parties to call you at home.

This time it was a Democrat running for govenor. I told them I would only vote for him if he promised to round up all the Mexicans, put them on busses, and ship them back down to the Rio Grande.

When the Republicans call up I'll say that I only vote for transgendered candidates.

Incidentally, the caller ID said: Friends of Terry, 571-633-4800. If any of you feel like spamming him I would be much obliged.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
I've never received an unsolicited call on any of my cell phones in 10 years of ownership.
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The warranty on your car is about to expire....
 
Originally posted by: acheron
Welcome to Virginia.
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One of the very few reasons I miss living out west.
People out there are much less concerned with political shit (perhaps to a fault) and I never got contacted from anybody in a campaign. In Virginia it seems that every facet of my life has to revolve around what the politicians are doing or what they wanna be doing or what I think they are doing or what I think they should be doing.

At some point somebody has to stop politicking and get some fucking WORK DONE!

 
Yeah I learned that lesson when I put my cell phone number on my voter registration card and they started calling me to campaign. I told them this is my cell phone and if I get anymore calls from you guys I'm not voting for you! 😀
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: TallBill
I've never received an unsolicited call on any of my cell phones in 10 years of ownership.
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Lucky you.
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Luck doesn't exist.
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So you're going to tell us it's simply coincidence and you therefore have no reason to brag? Because the rest of us aren't, like, signing up to receive these spam calls or something.

The do-not-call list doesn't work and the FCC couldn't possibly enforce every violation if all violations were actually reported.

Companies get your phone number no matter how hard you try to hide it. They'll call regardless of the law.
 
Originally posted by: Nik
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: buck
Originally posted by: TallBill
I've never received an unsolicited call on any of my cell phones in 10 years of ownership.
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Lucky you.
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Luck doesn't exist.
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So you're going to tell us it's simply coincidence and you therefore have no reason to brag? Because the rest of us aren't, like, signing up to receive these spam calls or something.

The do-not-call list doesn't work and the FCC couldn't possibly enforce every violation if all violations were actually reported.

Companies get your phone number no matter how hard you try to hide it. They'll call regardless of the law.
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Was I bragging? More like making a statement. I am registered to vote by the way. I don't know the reason why, but I haven't ever signed up for a do-not-call list because I've never had a reason to.
 
where's the option for "none"?

i'm waiting to hear the magic words before someone gets my vote .. and those are "abolish the car tax".

or at least the first candidate to suggest walling in DC to keep the communists from crossing over the border.
 
I was a campaign manager who used data like this. Trust me, you are in a database and we know your personal info, voting patterns, party registration, etc. It's a webapp and I can pull up a report of all voters in the state in about 15 minutes, and export it to a csv. I hate to say it, but if you vote, and especially if you vote regularly, there is almost no way to avoid having your data collected.
 
Originally posted by: xeemzor
I was a campaign manager who used data like this. Trust me, you are in a database and we know your personal info, voting patterns, party registration, etc. It's a webapp and I can pull up a report of all voters in the state in about 15 minutes, and export it to a csv. I hate to say it, but if you vote, and especially if you vote regularly, there is almost no way to avoid having your data collected.
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I don't think that regularity has anything to do with it. There are public records requests placed in offices *frequently* for lists of voters that voted for a specific party. We don't provide SSN/SID/DOB, but usually the name + address + phone is all that the parties/candidates want.

Someone needs to start a do-not-call program for political campaigns.
 
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: xeemzor
I was a campaign manager who used data like this. Trust me, you are in a database and we know your personal info, voting patterns, party registration, etc. It's a webapp and I can pull up a report of all voters in the state in about 15 minutes, and export it to a csv. I hate to say it, but if you vote, and especially if you vote regularly, there is almost no way to avoid having your data collected.
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I don't think that regularity has anything to do with it. There are public records requests placed in offices *frequently* for lists of voters that voted for a specific party. We don't provide SSN/SID/DOB, but usually the name + address + phone is all that the parties/candidates want.

Someone needs to start a do-not-call program for political campaigns.
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The records we had indicated in which elections and how often people voted. We are able to get these records with the tools we use, at least in Ohio. We made a special effort to contact the people who voted 3+ times, as they generally tend to vote again.
 
Originally posted by: xeemzor
Originally posted by: GeekDrew
Originally posted by: xeemzor
I was a campaign manager who used data like this. Trust me, you are in a database and we know your personal info, voting patterns, party registration, etc. It's a webapp and I can pull up a report of all voters in the state in about 15 minutes, and export it to a csv. I hate to say it, but if you vote, and especially if you vote regularly, there is almost no way to avoid having your data collected.
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I don't think that regularity has anything to do with it. There are public records requests placed in offices *frequently* for lists of voters that voted for a specific party. We don't provide SSN/SID/DOB, but usually the name + address + phone is all that the parties/candidates want.

Someone needs to start a do-not-call program for political campaigns.
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The records we had indicated in which elections and how often people voted. We are able to get these records with the tools we use, at least in Ohio. We made a special effort to contact the people who voted 3+ times, as they generally tend to vote again.
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I was responding to this: "I hate to say it, but if you vote, and especially if you vote regularly, there is almost no way to avoid having your data collected."

Your data is being collected regardless of frequency of voting. Whether or not a particular campaign uses that data is another issue.
 
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