If everyone did that, the opponent would set up a SPAC that would text in support of the candidate knowing it would cost votes.

I don't know about you, but I get political spam from localities and states that I've never even lived in.

It's really bad, and to this point is just something "everyone does". So it just immediately gets deleted and reported as junk and I move on. The bigger question for me is how effective this type of marketing actually is because I can't imagine it is.

Even for president or senator? I usually get texts for both main party candidates at some point in the election cycle, seems a bit drastic not to note vote for President or vote or write-in someone whom you share no values but refrains from spamming SMS

I absolutely refuse to vote for anyone who does this, and if it means I don't vote so be it. No exceptions.

Besides which, I never share values with the candidates for national office anyways. Nobody is willing to actually protect civil liberties any more, and I'm not going to vote for someone who will take away my freedom when it's politically expedient.

I already fall back to write-ins a lot as I have other rules that will disqualify candidates in my book.

Politicians are like the ad industry (scummy)... I owe them nothing. If they choose to run, so be it, but if they spam me, they're off the ticket. Just like captcha sites.

Who does that philosophy leave you with for your potus vote? Some write in guy with a shoe on his head?

I already refuse to vote for someone I don't actually support. So yes, I often will write in candidates.

Honestly it's terrifying that there are so many real-life questions of self-governance and some citizens are just out there casting votes for something like this.

Don’t sweat it. People are fickle and make all sorts of irrational decisions.

Many super nerdy online people profess to die on various molehills. Fortunately, they don’t represent a lot of volume.