Election Phone Calls

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. ALL R”H and Shabbos, all day every day, the phone rang incessantly. I have a young relative who is extremely ill, and every time the phone rings, I jump out of my skin. I can’t leave it off the hook, either. The only option is to listen to the phone ring (no turn off the ringer option). I finally answered one of the calls yesterday and got a live person. I told her that my vote is private and I would never tell someone on the phone for whom I plan to vote. She hung up really quickly.

yes this election is by far the worst of the worst regarding all the annoyning phone calls and all the mail i decided not to vote for anyone who calls me or mails me anything. I even got phone calls over Yom Tov! shouldn’t they know better than that?

The phone calls can be annoying. However I have volunteered for numerous campaigns in my life & they always call voters because they wan’t to have an idea as to how they are polling in the race they are running for & to allow voters to know the issues of the Candidate,why you should vote for that candidate over someone else & to get the vote out. If phone calls are not made, no literature is sent out or the candidates do not do canvassing how are the voters supposed to know about what each candidate stands for especially in local races like City Council, Assembly, State Senator etc.