Politics and the Do Not Call List

[Deleted]

Are political calls, polling, and research calls allowed to break the Do Not Call List? Because, we are on it, yet we are getting non stop political phone calls. I freaking hate living in FL during elections.

So far today, I'm up to call #10, and I wasn't even home all day. I'm going to lose it if this continues through November.

[Nonny]

Political calls are, which pisses me off to no end, and probably polling and research would fall under the category of political calls. I've heard of a secondary political do not call list, but politicians aren't required to access and use it, and I think most don't.

[meshaliuknits]

You should change you message to "Hi this is Irish. I can't come to the phone right now, but leave a meassage and I'll call you back. Unless you're a politician, in which case I will be voting for the craziest person on the ballot."

Of course, those are probably robo calls. That's less fun.

[Deleted]

Yep, they are all robo calls. And its compounded with the fact that we get collection calls for someone named Jennifer. Those are also robo calls. We've tried to call back to correct them, but we usually give up after 45 minutes on hold.

So basically, my phone rings non stop, but there is never a human on the line, lol.

[meshaliuknits]

Robo-calls are so much less fun.

We were getting those at work to our support line. One of the ladies I work with finally had enough and was on hold for 90min before she got a human on the line. How can they expect anyone to call back to work out a payment plan for their debt if they don't answer the damn phone?

[cookiemdough]

The other night I got three political research calls from the same place within 5 minutes. I was pissed. I generally try not to be rude to people who do this for their job, but really that is ridiculous.

[msmerymac]

Yes. Political calls, non-profits, and anything you personally sign up for can contact you, regardless of Do Not Call status. (So even if political calls weren't covered, if you were on the list for the DNC voluntarily, they could call you about stuff.)

[Deleted]

H signed up as a volunteer for the national convention. I'm choosing to blame him for this.

[y4m]

Research is also exempt.