- Upcoming election has led to a surge in robocalls and text messages.
- Residents express significant annoyance with constant political outreach.
- Messages often target voters based on party affiliation, with some being quite personal.
- Political consultancies use public voter data to send millions of messages.
- Cost of these outreach efforts is very low, making them widespread.
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It seems like none of us could dodge the robocalls and text messages during election season.
“You know with these calls, they’ll say if you’re a republican or democrat?” Said resident Angie Rosado.
Some are little more extreme, check out this text FOX 47 News Larry Wallace got from “Jackie”, a former Donald Trump supporter, who said she will not be supporting the former president this time around The message also came along with a selfie.