The FCC has rules and requirements, but political texts and calls are different than marketing calls.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Are political campaign texts legal? Even if you’re on the Do Not Call list? The short answer is yes. The Federal Communications Commission has all kinds of rules for these kinds of calls and texts.
The FCC states on its website that texts to mobile phones are allowed if an actual person types in your number. But if it’s a robotext, an automated text, then you have to give prior consent to be texted.
Right now you’re thinking, there’s no way I would give consent to all these political texts, but chances are, you did.
“If you have used your number on any online ordering or any type of marketing on social media, those simple end user agreements may have in fine print that they may be able to share with other service providers,” …