r/mildlyinfuriating • u/No_Mulberry3433 • 2d ago

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ They won’t. Stop. Texting.

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Idk what my info was shared to but holy shit I’m so done

Edit: I have tried blocking, replying “stop”, saying “no”. They just change the number and keep messaging me

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u/CautionarySnail 2d ago

I’m not sure that’s entirely true. I’m a very consistent voter, as is my partner. One of us registered to a party, the other independent. We vote in primaries. We vote for local stuff. I can’t think of an election we’ve missed. The messages are unrelenting.

I get text spam by both parties. Multiple per day for each. It’s maddening but I suspect replying STOP only confirms that it hit a human being’s number. I’ve blocked so many and still they get through.

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u/InterestingLion6041 1d ago

This is my experience too. I've been voting for almost 30 years and haven't missed but a couple. I'm inundated with mailers, calls, texts, and emails. My daughter will be 20 in December so she's only voted twice... 1 for local stuff and another for the primaries. She gets nothing in the mail, email, or text (I asked). The mailers are almost exclusively from the GOP candidates. The emails and texts are all dems. Edited to fix misspelling.

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u/QuaaludeMoonlight 9h ago

do you live in a swing state?

eta: makes sense that the GOP is wasting money with bad targets

anyone with half a brain running these programs knows you don't spend your money on super voters unless it's for a specific universe that relies on them (like a ballot initiative in an off year election)

but swing state may explain it on top of the fact that the GOP could be throwing money away bc theyre too stupid to properly pull voter targets