Posts tagged quiet hours.
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.
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.
The TCPA governs every political text. Campaigns are exempt from written consent but must still have consent, honor STOP instantly, identify themselves, text in reasonable hours, and keep four years of records. Here's the whole picture.
Federal rules and a growing patchwork of state mini-TCPA laws set the hours you can text voters. This complete guide covers how quiet hours work, why recipient local time governs, the state variations, and how to stay compliant across a multi-state list.
A statewide or multi-state text program can violate quiet hours in one place while it's still afternoon in another. Here's how to get send timing right across time zones.
In Txtra, compliance isn't a feature you turn on, it's the floor every send runs on. Here's how the always-on compliance layer works, what it handles automatically, and why it's built into the core.
Quiet hours are the rule beneath every compliant send, and the thing most programs get wrong. The window is measured by the recipient's local time, which is why enforcement has to happen per person.
The federal TCPA is no longer the whole story. A wave of state mini-TCPA laws now adds consent, quiet-hour, and identification rules that vary by state. Here's what's changing and how campaigns keep up across a multi-state list.
The best time to send a political text is within reasonable local hours, matched to the message. Here's how timing works for broadcast and P2P, why recipient local time governs, and how the GOTV calendar changes the answer.
Within legal quiet hours (8am-9pm recipient local time), late afternoon and early evening tend to engage best, people are off work and on their phones. But the hard rule comes first, send only within each recipient's local window, then optimize inside it.
Gate every send to the recipient's local time, not yours. Quiet hours (8am-9pm) are measured where the voter is, so a national list can't go out in one blast, it has to be scheduled per time zone, or your platform has to stagger it automatically.