1. Next time, vote early during the early voting process. This should take your name and number out of the universe of calls to be made. Campaigns have access to records that show who has voted to date, and who has not.
2. Get rid of your landline! What in the heck are you waiting for? It's 2010, for goodness sakes. The laws about robo dialing cell phones are much different than for landlines. Unless you have opted in for a campaign to call your cell, you should be getting just about zero "go vote" messages on your cell.
Today is your last day to vote early. If you don't get it done today, expect a ton of calls over the weekend and through Tuesday from everyone who thinks they can influence you - Obama, Hillary, your state rep, your state senator, your kindergarten teacher, and anyone else a campaign can dig up and put in front of a voice recorder.
What does the voting look like in Fort Bend County, so far? Enlarge these photos and check it out (through Wednesday, Oct. 27):
And, for Harris County, here's voting through Thursday, October 28:
3 comments:
"Get rid of your landline! What in the heck are you waiting for?"
Better coverage in my neighborhood, especially in my house. It's not as bad as it used to be, but it's still too spotty to be sufficiently reliable.
And fwiw, I voted on Day One. Which has basically eliminated the calls (except from Judith Cruz's HISD Trustee campaign, which is amusing since I'm not in her district) but not the zillions of people on Facebook asking me to commit to voting.
That's funny, Charles - about Cruz. I meant to say something snarky about campaigns who don't know who votes in their district or neglects to take early voters out of the pool. :)
I voted on Day One, also!
Hmmm, the laws about making 'commercial' calls to cell phones are certainly different from those for land lines, but, Political Calls are a special case and may be made to cell phones.
I'd bet that any significant restrictions on Political Speech (including restrictions on cell phone calls for political purposes) would be quickly overturned on Constitutional grounds.
Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocall#Political_calls
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