Critical info on Robo Calls. What to do if you're called.

[hedda_foil]

http://protectourvotes.org/

Annoying Robo Calls or Illegal Voter Suppression?
ALREADY A STORY: Republicans are blanketing key Congressional districts with annoying robo calls. Listen to one here. These calls may result in post-election fines because they do not properly identify themselves early in the script and may also be violating caller id requirements .

NOT YET A STORY: These calls may be a coordinated effort to suppress the vote. What's the difference between annoying robo calls and voter suppression? Many voters are reporting that the robo callers are calling back immediately when they hang up. The first words of the robo calls are "Hi, I'm calling with information about ..." followed by a short pause. Therefore, voters receiving these calls could think they are being called repeatedly by the Democratic campaign or a group supporting the campaign.

MISSING PIECE: For this to break through, there needs to be visual evidence that voters are being called back immediately. Bloggers: please tell your readers to get video cameras ready and start rolling when the phone rings. Use the speaker phone so that the call can be heard. We need just one example of that up on YouTube and VideoTheVote.com.

Even better would be emails leaked from the robo call house responsible (or any robo call house for that matter) that offer the service or mention the strategy in question.

(Thanks TPMMuckraker & G2Geek.)

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. .

:kick:

[williesgirl]

2. K&R

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. I kind of come down on the side...

Of finding out where their dialing servers are located, going there and giving those servers some much-needed maintenance with a Louisville Slugger Fungo Bat.

But that's just me. ;-)

[democrank]

4. Thanks for the info.

Hope we can get to the bottom of this.

[drm604]

5. I've been getting the Lois Murphy calls

but they always come when I'm not home so they end up in my voice-mail. If I get another one I can try to see if I can match it up by time with the number recorded by my caller ID. Would that be of any help?

[elehhhhna]

6. Vid your caller ID, also.

K&R

[quiet.american]

7. Kick. n/t

[LizW]

8. Are they required to identify?

I got a robo-call the other day bashing the Dem candidate for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. I listened to it all the way through and they never identified. (And the call was full of lies.) I e-mailed the Dem candidate's campaign office and let them know.

I think whoever pays for these calls should be required by law to identify.

[cassiepriam]

9. If they win the election they will be glad to pay the fine.

Well worth it to them when they get all the repug kickbacks.

[LSK]

10. DO NOT CALL ANY DEM OFFICE RE ROBOCALLS

They are busy with GOTV and they know about it. CAll the GOP, tie up their time tonite.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2594960