The DO NOT CALL laws
have changed political
phone canvassing in many ways.
It
is important to realize that phoning for political campaigns, in fact
for most matters relating to politics, are generally exempt from these
laws.
But
there is more to it than that.
At first, most companies that supply files of phone numbers simply
removed all numbers on the Do Not Call lists, regardless of the representations
of exemptions made by their users. This led to a growing problem with decreasing
phone matches, since nearly 35% of all phone numbers nationally are on a
Do Not Call list.
After nearly a year of discussion, our phone supplier began to release Do
Not Call coded numbers, coded on the file as such. This is a big help to
political campaigns. We now have more phone numbers available than we did
during the ban. Since they are exempt, our customers can use the Do Not
Call numbers if they choose to. Alternatively, they will know these voters
object to being called, and can consider contacting them by alternate means.
VCS has reflected this Do Not Call coding on our voter file.
We can give you counts of voters with phones, both
on and off the Do Not Call list.
We can deliver voter lists with the Do No Call information
included.
We can deliver mailing labels for just those voters
who are on the Do Not Call list.
The
possibilities are endless.
Give us a call, we'll be glad to discuss them with you.
