We’ve never received as many phone calls as we have during this election. I attribute it to five ballots coming to our house, fewer people still using land lines like ours, my family waiting too long to send our ballots in, and millions of dollars of national being poured into our US Senate and House races. And we screen our calls and don’t generally answer unidentified numbers unless the caller makes it clear who they are in their message, so pollsters may have tried calling us repeatedly.
In any case, our household is guessing we received somewhere between one-hundred and two-hundred election-related calls during the last few weeks. Most of them of course were robo-calls. Every day our answering machine filled up.
It goes without saying that this is WAY too many. I would not complain if each campaign left me one message explaining why I should vote for their candidate. But this was far too many.
I’m going to seriously consider dumping our land line before the next national election.
We dumped the landline when we moved and got rid of DSL 3 years ago. Never have missed it.
Google Voice is your answer.
-H
Do Not Call List
Randy,
You should list your land line number on the National Do Not Call Registry at https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx. We only got maybe 30 calls or so. But we’re thinking of getting rid of our land line too.
Re: Do Not Call List
Unfortunately, the “Do Not Call List” does not apply to politicians or charities. From the website,
“Because of limitations in the jurisdiction of the FTC and FCC, calls from or on behalf of political organizations, charities, and telephone surveyors would still be permitted, as would calls from companies with which you have an existing business relationship, or those to whom you’ve provided express agreement in writing to receive their calls.”