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points by LooseMarmoset 3 days ago | 0 comments

I have never provided my phone number at voter registration. In any case, all the texts to me are marked with "Hello Louella". I have also been "Brenda".

I am not a Louella or a Brenda, more of a "Joe" or "Frank".

I am quite sure that ActBlue just creates a list of names, then create a wardial list and assign those names to a number.

Asking them to stop just confirms your number to work. And yes, it's ActBlue because they have specifically identified themselves as such more than once.

[–] brigade 3 days ago

You know those data brokers and skip tracers like Acxiom and Epsilon that merge all the government databases like property records or USPS change of address notifications with private databases like all the contact lists every random app wants you to upload?

They probably did a fuzzy merge and your number (or a number typo'd to yours) got associated with some random old lady.

That's how I got on the lists of all the scummy PACs targeting elderly voters that Adam Bonica called out recently. I only figured it out because the cash for homes cold contacts trying to lowball his house will actually respond.