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Well, that's absurd. The FTC will calmly tell you that you're not being spammed. These are legitimate communications.

There is an explicit carve-out for all political/election related communications to voters. You can't opt-out by DoNotCall and you can't suppress your contact info from the public voter rolls. (They also know when you cast your ballots--there's currently someone hounding me about it, and their entire mission is to explicitly hound people until the vote is cast.)

This is even a stronger affinity than companies who have a current business relationship with you. You can individually get out of those, but you will always receive political communications.

It doesn't matter if it's a shady, fly-by-night out-of-state PAC with dark money, or whether it's the Lord Emperor For Life Himself on the phone, it's all equally legitimated, and nobody will dare legislate against it.



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