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Campaign Calls to Cellphones Invade Privacy, Voters Say
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Voters in swing states, including Virginia, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico, have been most susceptible to the barrage of calls.
Tara Lowry, 29, of San Diego has received so many political robocalls on her cellphone in the past month that she started letting any call coming from an unfamiliar number go straight to voicemail. She said this has caused her to miss important calls she otherwise would have answered.
"Nobody is going to change my vote based on a 60-second message," she said. "If anything, they make me not want to support whatever it is that they are calling to annoy me about."
Lowry has even received calls from a campaign in states such as Nevada, where she has never lived.
"I'm beginning to think that I need a land line, just to give out to the people that I don't want to talk to," she said.
Staff writer Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
