Texting voters just got harder, right before the midterms.
By Rachel M. Cohen - Jul 19, 2022
Text messaging - with their markedly high "open rates" - is an especially potent form of political outreach: Since 2016, texting has become one of the most appealing ways for campaigns to engage voters or supporters, especially as so many have ditched their landlines.
But as part of a broader effort to crack down on the fast-growing problem of spam calls and texts, mobile carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have been rolling out a new policy that affects any business, nonprofit, union, or campaign that intends to send at least
3,000 messages per day.