alt Hacker NewsFor political spam I have a rule that I refuse to vote for any candidate who directly or indirectly sends me a text asking for their vote. If everyone did that, perhaps fewer politicians would go this route.
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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
Who does that philosophy leave you with for your potus vote? Some write in guy with a shoe on his head?
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.
If everyone did that, the opponent would set up a SPAC that would text in support of the candidate knowing it would cost votes.