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It’s forever. Sorry dude

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I reply STOP to every political text. Not an ideal solution, but it has cut down on the number I've been receiving.

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Conveniently for them, political calls are exempt from do not call registry. They must have forgotten when they passed the law.

One more week and it should be over.

Until the next day when the presidential campaign starts! Haha I hope not but I fear

If your state has early voting vote as early as possible. A lot of them will take you off their list then because it costs them money and they can't influence your vote anymore.

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Type STOP. It's worked for me.

Actually being interested and investing in the political process is the only answer.

I hope to never suffer this, since for some reason my mobile carrier doesn't allow me to send messages.

It's been almost a decade with no answer as to why, across three numbers and like seven phones.

I can't send SMS to my family, or say 'STOP' to these campaigns, or use online services which require you send a message (the google chat thing for example)

Every political message I have received by text has included the phrase STOP 2 quit.

So reply with STOP.

Do your messages not say that?

Get a new number, or just block each and every one until they run out of numbers to use. And if they're using malicious means to using/creating new numbers, then shame on them, but otherwise there's nothing you can do.

It's like complaining about your home constantly getting burglarized when you live in a crime-ridden area, when the quick and easiest solution is to simply move to a different area. Otherwise, assholes are gunna asshole.

I moved to a different state when I was 17 for college, and I still get calls and texts from my original home state during election season. I've never even registered to vote in that state.

I usually reply STOP and it works.

A few times the emails I got were from actual people working for campaigns, rather than bots. In those cases I wrote back "please stop texting/calling me and immediately remove my contact information from your call/text lists or I will vote against what you are texting me about."

I only got a single text this year and I am pretty happy about that.

Oh I'm sorry that's awful!

Good lawd that makes me upset.

I think they are looking to be removed from all these text lists altogether. I get at least a dozen a week and as many times as I hit stop I still keep getting texts.

I feel you. I legit get constant texts and calls from the opposing party, asking for a completely different person in a completely different state no matter how many stops/please take me off the lists I do. No matter what, end up with the never ending barrage with different numbers every time.

I did that with a door to door campaigner “I am voting for whoever bothers me the least” never had another show up

I reply with "send nudes" and never hear from them again.

I’m sad to say I have been one of those people sending these political text messages in the past. I’m done with that world thankfully but I do have a recommendation.

I’m not certain if this applies outside of California but the most effective thing you can do is reply to the sender with “please remove this number from all text campaigns immediately.” This was the only way to make sure that we didn’t contact you again or for a different race.

By law, political text messages have to be “sent” by a real person (who sends hundreds at a time but hits “send” for each one). Phone calls are a different story; they are all automated now so it’s a bit more challenging to stop. I just filter unknown callers.

Good luck!

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This is extremely solid advice! Time vs money is likely more effective anyways. I phone banked once and was actually a really positive experience!

Got mad once and replied "Will vote for opposition if you dont STOP"

It kinda worked i guess?

And they wonder why we think they're all dodgy pieces of shit.

I’m getting tons of these and the STOP is different each time. Stop2End or StoptoEnd there are minor differences in the command you have to text back and there is only one text per number. Some of them start with Pat or Steve (not my name) and I have NEVER contributed to a candidate over text. Super aggravating

I have a "report spammer" option when I long press a text on my phone.

I've been reporting each and everyone of those texts that I get. (In addition to replying STOP. )

It probably does not do anything, but I like to hope that if they get enough spam reports the phone carriers will do something.

I think they know lol

Where do you live? I’m still bombarded with mail, calls, texts, and television ads after voting last week.

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