Posts tagged compliance.
Yes, campaigns can text voters on Election Day, with the same two rules that apply every other day: text only people who opted in, and send only within legal hours for each recipient's location.
Federally, automated political texts can only go out between **8 a.m. and 9 p.m. in the recipient's local time**. Several states are stricter, and the window that matters is always the voter's, not the campaign's.
Yes. Volunteers are not exempt, texting a volunteer's cell with an autodialer still needs their prior express consent, the same as any other recipient. The good news is volunteers are the easiest opt-in you'll ever get.
Only if the petition clearly asked for text consent and they agreed. A signature on a petition is not, by itself, permission to text, the same way a vote or a donation isn't.
The short federal answer is probably not, and the leading authority points that way. But it's unsettled, and a state committee follows state law, not the FEC. Here's the actual picture, and why it's your counsel's call.
On Election Day your team should be turning out voters, not watching a send queue. Here's how to schedule GOTV texts ahead of time while keeping every message inside legal hours for each recipient.
No, not legally, a phone number on the voter file is not consent to text it. The voter file tells you who to reach and how to target; it does not give you permission to send autodialed texts to those cells.
A short, practical template for a first political text that's both compliant and effective, who you are, what you want, how to opt out, in under 160 characters.
A factual, numbers-first look at what non-compliant texting costs a political campaign, TCPA statutory damages, real settlements, the state mini-TCPA wave, and the expected-value case for getting it right.
The complete guide to political texting compliance, consent, the TCPA, 10DLC registration, quiet hours, opt-outs, state laws, and records. Everything a campaign needs, in one place.
Some consequences of bad texting never reach a courtroom. They reach the voter, who decides you're the campaign that won't leave them alone, and tells their friends. The reputational death of a spam program.
Peer-to-peer texting is often sold as the way to skip 10DLC and consent rules. That's a dangerous half-truth. Here's what P2P actually exempts, and what it doesn't.