Unfortunately, they're exempt from most anti-spam laws, but they're not allowed to use autodialing to send calls or texts to mobile phones. So if you can prove that's happening, go ahead and report it. But once you're in a database that's been shared with every candidate who is ever going to run, stopping one will never stop them all. You can use configurations to silence the receipt and you can respond and ask to be removed hoping there is a human paying attention at the other end, but that's about it.
Well over 15 years ago someone somewhere mis-entered information and associated my phone number with my grandmother, and still to this day I get texts from GOP candidates about races and issues in Nevada. I'm not conservative, haven't voted in 20 years, and have never lived in Nevada and couldn't vote there if I wanted to. They don't care. They're just blind copying numbers out of a database that has already been copied and distributed thousands of times, and deleting it from one copy won't do anything to the thousands of other copies. My grandmother is fast approaching 90, just had a stroke, and probably isn't going to live a whole lot longer. I'm sure I'll be getting texts from Nikki Haley and what not 30 years from now still addressed to her.
At least it's only during election years. Try owning a house. Your phone will become worthless as 95% of all communication comes from property speculators who simply canvas public records and beg you to sell. Or don't even own a house. I also get offers for my grandmother's old house all the time. She didn't even own that one and the guy who did own it died five years ago.
The supreme court dramatically reduced the definition of "automatic telephone dialing systems" under the TCPA recently, too, to the point that there is in practice no regulation here.
Unfortunately, they're exempt from most anti-spam laws, but they're not allowed to use autodialing to send calls or texts to mobile phones. So if you can prove that's happening, go ahead and report it. But once you're in a database that's been shared with every candidate who is ever going to run, stopping one will never stop them all. You can use configurations to silence the receipt and you can respond and ask to be removed hoping there is a human paying attention at the other end, but that's about it.
Well over 15 years ago someone somewhere mis-entered information and associated my phone number with my grandmother, and still to this day I get texts from GOP candidates about races and issues in Nevada. I'm not conservative, haven't voted in 20 years, and have never lived in Nevada and couldn't vote there if I wanted to. They don't care. They're just blind copying numbers out of a database that has already been copied and distributed thousands of times, and deleting it from one copy won't do anything to the thousands of other copies. My grandmother is fast approaching 90, just had a stroke, and probably isn't going to live a whole lot longer. I'm sure I'll be getting texts from Nikki Haley and what not 30 years from now still addressed to her.
At least it's only during election years. Try owning a house. Your phone will become worthless as 95% of all communication comes from property speculators who simply canvas public records and beg you to sell. Or don't even own a house. I also get offers for my grandmother's old house all the time. She didn't even own that one and the guy who did own it died five years ago.