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Pre-Recorded Phone Should be Illegal

In this election season, I have been BOMBARDED with pre-recorded phone
calls pitching various candidates, flooding my answering machine.

I know election phone calls are legal.

However, I think pre-recorded phone calls, of any kind, should be
illegal.

The constant ringing of the phone this year was terribly annoying.

If it had been last year, it would've been devastating. Last year at
this time I was caring for a seriously ill person and was ill myself.
I was in frequent touch with doctors, phamarcies, nurses, and
families. I had to keep the phone open and answer all calls.

To a healthy person, the constant ringing was terribly annoying. I
would've gone out of my mind last year.

When you're in bad pain, a ringing telephone is not a pleasant thing.

BTW, I also received several live calls urging a deceased member of
family to go vote, even though that person was removed from the
election rolls quite some time ago. [In hindsight I wish I requested
they come and assist that person to the polls.]

When I go to the polls Tuesday, I will talk to the politicians (the
people who stand outside and give out leaflets). I will ask them for
their home phone numbers, but I have a funny feeling they, for some
strange reason, won't give them to me.

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