The National Political Do Not Contact Registry - Stop Political Calls BLOG

Welcome

Hi,

Welcome to the National Political Do Not Contact Registry Blog.   If you would like to register your phone number at our main site, please click here.

What We Will Do:

1. We will collect your contact information.
2. We will send your contact information to ALL political parties, candidates, political action committees, and any other organization that makes political robo calls and ensure that they are told that you no longer want robo calls from them.

What is the NPDNC Registry and what do we do for you?

• Who:  We are a non-profit, non-partisan organization located in Washington, DC.   We receive no funding from outside organizations.   Funding comes directly from contributions of individual voters.  That means you can be assured that we are independent and free from any political influence.
• Advocacy: We advocate for you, the voter.  We make sure that politicians understand that Political Automated Robocalls simply don't work.  We ask that politicians stop calling you and all voters.   Our core belief is that the market will work, eventually.   That is, politicians will realize that it is no longer in their self interest to robocall you, the voter.  They have every incentive to stay in office.   Calling you 15 times a day will not earn them your vote.
  
• Action: We distribute our National Political Do Not Contact Registry database to politicians, political action committees, advocacy organizations and many other exempt groups and ask that they not call those voters that have registered.
  
• Education: We work with candidates and advocacy groups to educate them on the effectiveness (lack of) of political robo calls and encourage them to use alternate channels to communicate with voters.  Here is a link to data about this issue.
• Research We work with all interested groups (media, non-profits, others) to provide data, research and education on how robo calls impact voter's lives.
• Seminars:  We run Privacy Seminars in which we work with privacy advocates around the nation to educate the public about the impact of commercial and government entities on the privacy of you, the voter.
• Legislation:  From time to time we assist legislators in their desire to implement new laws around this issue.   For example, In 2008 we worked with Sen. Feinstein to help introduce the Robocall Privacy Act.  At the state level we work with State's Attorney General to enforce existing robocall regulations (for example:  IN, MN and NC)

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Regards,

Shaun Dakin
CEO and Founder

(Audio) Newt Gingrich Robocall Saying Romney Forced Holocaust Survivors to Eat Non Kosher Food

Shaun Dakin, CEO and Founder of StopPoliticalCalls.org

What > Robocall from Newt 2012
Against > Romney
Content > Talks about how Romney forced MA Seniors that were Holocaust Survivors to Eat Non Kosher Food

Where > FL
Audio > Yes
Verified > Not certain
Source > Via twitter @my2bucks

Download IMG_0133.MOV

BREAKING > Reports Run Hillary 2012 Making Robocalls

Shaun Dakin - CEO and Founder
The National Political Do Not Contact Registry - StopPoliticalCalls.org
A non-partisan non-profit fighting for voter privacy rights
There are reports this morning from members and on social media that people are receiving robocalls from an organization called "Run Hillary 2012". 

I was able to find this website that looks like it could be the organization doing this.

So far I have reports from people in NC and NY.

Did you get one?

Report it here at this link.

(Audio) Romney making illegal Robocalls in SC #robos

Shaun Dakin, CEO and Founder, The National Political Do Not Contact Registry

CNN is reporting that Nikki Haley, Governor of SC, has been making robocalls today in SC.

The good news is that the Romney robocalls are have full disclosure on the calls. Good going Mitt !

The bad news is that robocalls are illegal in SC.

Here is the law. ( Link to the law here.)

SECTION 16-17-446. Regulation of automatically dialed announcing device (ADAD).
(A) "Adad" means an automatically dialed announcing device
which delivers a recorded message without assistance by a live operator
for the purpose of making an unsolicited consumer telephone call as
defined in Section 16-17-445(A)(3). Adad calls include automatically
announced calls of a political nature including, but not limited to,
calls relating to political campaigns. Here is the call. Link to audio here.

"Hi, this is Gov. Nikki Haley, and this morning I announced my
endorsement of Mitt Romney for President of the United States," Haley
says in the call, which was received by a Republican voter in Rock Hill
who provided it to CNN.

"Mitt Romney knows what it means to make decisions, real decisions, not
simply cast a vote," Haley says in the call. "He is not a creature of
Washington. He knows how the private economy works, how to fix it, and
most importantly how to solve problems. And he has proven it."

The "Uncle" Letter that killed the robocall to mobile phone bill #HR3035

I'll write more about this victory, but this letter from Rep Lee Terry, the bill's sponsor, say's it all.

The title of the document is "Uncle Letter".

Thanks to many many of you who signed petitions and called your representatives to tell them to "kill this bill".

Download Uncle Letter.pdf

OMG > The longest and weirdest robocall I've ever heard - 5 minutes long > What If ? #Privacy #p2 #ows #tcot #tlot

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact Registry
NEW >
Want to send a robocall to politicians? New website that turns the
tables on politicians and lets voters robocall politicians directly. ReverseRobocall.com

"What if the powers no longer limited congress. What if the President was a monarch...?"
Who: ?? (no disclosure, no caller id)

Where: NC
When: 12/09/2011
What: The longest robocall in history #TeaParty
Listen here.

Source > Twitter

(Audio) US Political Robocall Sent to Quebec, Canada

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact Registry
NEW >
Want to send a robocall to politicians? New website that turns the
tables on politicians and lets voters robocall politicians directly. ReverseRobocall.com


Story:

This is something that we have been noticing recently. US Political robocalls being sent into Canada. Specifically to Canadian businesses that have 1-800 numbers set up for use by the US Customers of those Canadian businesses.

There is no reason why this should be happening.

Even stranger is this robocall where the caller is discussing Chris Christie for President. 

Chris Christie dropped out of the race (he was never in it) many months ago.

Who: ??
Where: Quebec, Canada
When: 12/02/2011
What: Robocall by an unidentified group supporting Chris Christie for President?

Listen.
Source > Via a twitter user in Canada

Quebec.WAV

FTC Do Not Call 2011 Report, compaints - 2.2 million complaints filed, AZ highest rate of complaints

Here is the full FTC 2011 Do Not Call Registry Databook

Headline >
The number of telemarketers paying for access to the database is plummeting from 6k to 3k since 2007.

Some highlights:

Over 209 million registrations on the Do Not Call list
Over 11 million complaints since 2003Over 2 million complaints this fiscal yearHighest level of complaints per 100k of population is AZ - 1,312

Lowest level of complaints per 100k is Alaska at 306
Indiana has a very low rate (334). Why? The state bans robocalls from all parties in that state.Highest registration % per 100k of population is NH

Lowest rate is AlaskaThe number of telemarketers paying for access to the database is plumenting from 6k to 3k since 2007.

Download 111130dncdatabook.pdf

Anonymous #OWS #Occupy Robocalls, who is making them?

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact Registry
NEW >
Want to send a robocall to politicians? New website that turns the
tables on politicians and lets voters robocall politicians directly. ReverseRobocall.com


Who is making anonymous robocalls across the nation that seemingly support the Occupy movement?

Ever since the Occupy movement started to get noticed by the national media there have been reports of people receiving robocalls in a variety of locations.

Here is one from IL 10.29.2011 and another one sent this week in the San Fransisco area (click on the links to listen to the audio of the call).

The interesting thing is that no one seems to be taking responsibility for the call. Most political calls have the following aspects to them (if they are legitimate):

Caller ID and Call identification. The incoming phone number is legitimate and is clearly identified to the recipient.

Disclosure. The call, usually at the end of the call, clearly states who is paying for the call and on which candidates behalf. Think: "Paid for by Obama for America, Chicago, IL"Call to action. The call usually asks the recipient to do something. To vote, mostly.

But these calls do not have these attributes.Here is the transcript from the most recent call in California.

This Thanksgiving, we need to figure out what
liberty and justice for all really mean. Consider these facts: the big
banks have foreclosed our homes, shipped our jobs overseas, and are
sitting on over $10 trillion dollars while our nation goes bankrupt.
Like the president of the Federal Reserve Bank said in New York, "Too
big to fail banks are too dangerous to permit." We, the 99%, can make a
difference. Call the White House, Congress, and City Hall. Tell them
that liberty and justice for all means breaking up the big banks and
jailing the Wall Street con-men.

As you can see there is, kind of, a call to action "call the White House, Congress, and City Hall to break up the big banks and jail the Wall Street con men".So, does anyone have a clue who is behind these calls?

#Occupy Robocall (Audio) Sent Today in CA #OWS

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryNEW > Want to send a robocall to politicians? New website that turns the tables on politicians and lets voters robocall politicians directly. ReverseRobocall.com

Who: ??
Where: CA
When: 11/21/2011
What: Robocall by an unidentified group supporting the #Occupy movement

Listen.Source > Twitter
Transcript



This Thanksgiving, we need to figure out what liberty and justice for all really mean. Consider these facts: the big banks have foreclosed our homes, shipped our jobs overseas, and are sitting on over $10 trillion dollars while our nation goes bankrupt. Like the president of the Federal Reserve Bank said in New York, "Too big to fail banks are too dangerous to permit." We, the 99%, can make a difference. Call the White House, Congress, and City Hall. Tell them that liberty and justice for all means breaking up the big banks and jailing the Wall Street con-men.

NOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.
NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.

Download Memo 1.aiff

(Audio) "Oops" a robocall one week LATE in CA on Proposition G

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryThis is interesting. A robocall that was sent a week AFTER the election to voters in CA.

Not only was this a waste of time it is illegal in CA.
ROBOCALLS IN CA ARE ILLEGAL. THE LAW IS HERE.

Why do politicians, particularly those elected to follow the law, ignore the law?Is there any wonder why voters despise politicians?Who: Yes on Proposition G

Where: CA
When: A week AFTER the election
What: A robocall RE Proposition G. Read an article about it here.

Listen.Source > Twitter
Transcript (Google Voice)


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and

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time

when

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are

needed

most.

Think

about

it.

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sent

the

small

price

to

pay

for

children

and

I've

seen

your

future.

Please

join

me.

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calling

and

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President

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proposition.

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support

of

Public

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NOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.
NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.

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(Audio) LT. GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT Anti Abortion Robocall #MS #PlannedParenthood #Personhood

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryNOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.

NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.Who: LT. GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT (MS)

Where: MS
When: 11/07/11
What: Vote in MS to declare a fetus a person by Personhood USA
Listen.

Download LT. GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT Personhood.mp4

Robocall Humor Cartoon

(Audio) @UtahTaxpayers Orem (UT) robocall via @elforesto

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryNOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.

NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.Who: Utah Taxpayers

Where: UT
When: 11/07/11
What: RE Orem city council and voting for candidates that won't risk taxpayer #
Listen.

UTA_RoboCall.mp3

(Audio) Illegal Robocall in CA - Paul Miyamoto for Sheriff #SF #SFmayor

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryNOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.

NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.ROBOCALLS IN CA ARE ILLEGAL. THE LAW IS HERE.

Why do politicians, particularly those elected to follow the law, ignore the law?Is there any wonder why voters despise politicians?Who: Paul Miyamoto for Sheriff

Where: CA
When: 11/07/2011 Caller ID is blocked.
What: Paul Miyamoto
Listen.

Download Paul Miyamoto.m4v

(audio) Personhood MS Abortion robocall against Planned Parenthood

By Shaun Dakin, CEO of The National Political Do Not Contact RegistryNOTE: We are tracking robocalls in 2011 at this online database here.

NOTE 2: If you have a robocall to share please email us here.Who: Personhood - Yes on 26

Where: MS
When: 11/05/11
What: Yes on 26 and Personhood USA
Listen.Source > Member via email

Download personhood usa robocall.mov