The election is, finally, over and it is time for another vote.
Take a moment to vote for what YOU think was the Worst robocall and the Weirdest robocall of the 2008 election. Will McCain's "Ayers" robocall win? How about the "sexy" robocall from a candidate for Congress in California with the appropriate first name of Zane?
Stop Political Robocalls
We are fighting for the privacy of the American voter. Enough is Enough with Politicians thinking that they can call voters day and night! The Republicans do it, the Democrats do it, and during the 2008 election cycle Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain did it. Unfortunately, your state and local candidates do it as well. Oh, and your state and national political parties, Political Action Committees, 527's, Unions, Police, and many more groups do it as well.
Register your Phone Number now for Free and become a member to protect your privacy and your sanity; and we'll contact the Politicians to ask that they stop calling you.
As seen on ABC News, CNN, USA Today, the LA Times, the New York Daily News and on NPR , The National Political Do Not Contact Registry is fighting for you, the American voter.
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The National Political Do Not Contact Registry is modeled on the incredible success of the Federal Do Not Call Registry. Unfortunately for American voters, political calls are excluded from the Federal DNC Registry. That means politicians can call you whenever and however they feel like it, even cell phone numbers!
Who we are: The National Political Do Not Contact Registry is a program of Citizens for Civil Discourse (CCD), a non-partisan and non-profit group of ordinary citizens dedicated to raising the level of political discourse in the United States. CCD believes Americans are tired of partisan posturing and a phony division between red states and blue states. We are fed up with negative campaigning and Washington grid lock.
That's why we have created the National Political Do Not Contact Registry as a way for all US voters to send the political campaigns a message: Stop unwanted Political Phone Calls and dinner time interruptions! You can register your contact information today for FREE and tell the politicians loud and clear that you have had enough of their business-as-usual campaigning!
Register now for Free -- let your representatives know that you won't vote for them if they won't listen to you.
Saturday Night Live's "robo call" skit can be viewed here:
After 90, 000 votes StopPoliticalCalls.org won the final round of voting in the Mashable.com Open Web Awards!
Thank you to everyone that supported us and let's hope that the political establishment takes notice!
News Articles Section
Robo Award Winners
Video segment by reporter Scott Hurley on the Robos!
News Item · Fox TV (WI) · Jan 3, 2009
I hate robocalls, you hate robocalls
You know, those automated calls from political candidates and their surrogates that reached absolute saturation a couple of months back.
Pick the worst of them here.
News Item · The Fayetteville Observer · Jan 2, 2009
Texan voice behind "weirdest robocall of 2008"
The winner for "weirdest" robocall of the year went to Austinite Robbert Morrow, who flooded phonelines in South Carolina in January with allegations about Bill and HIllary Clinton's White House years. Click here to listen to the call.
News Item · The Star Telegram (TX) · Jan 2, 2009
The First Annual Robos
Leading the voting in the weirdest category on Dakins website was the anti-Hillary call launched and paid for by Robert Morrow, a longtime anti-Clinton activist. The call went out to some voters in South Carolina before last year Democratic primary there.
News Item · Politics Magazine · Jan 2, 2009
Anti-Hillary robocalls nabs award
South Carolina's reputation for bare-knuckle politics will get a boost because it was home to the weirdest political phone call in the 2008 presidential campaign.
News Item · The Post & Courier (SC) · Jan 1, 2009
Press Releases Section
The Robos Are Here: The Worst Political Robocall (and Weirdest) of The Year
The winners for of the Robos!.
Press Release · Jan 1, 2009
StopPoliticalCalls.org WINS THE MASHABLE.COM OPEN WEB AWARDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact - Shaun Dakin - 703 201 1146 or email . StopPoliticalCalls.org WINS THE MASHABLE.COM OPEN WEB AWARDS Washington, DC.
The National Political Do Not Contact Registry is pleased to announce
that after over 150,000 votes were cast,...
Press Release · Dec 16, 2008
SOUTH CAROLINA - NON-PARTISAN GROUP SEEKS TO SHUT DOWN POLITICAL ROBOCALLS
Washington, D.C. – Monday, September 22, 2008 – The National Political Do Not Contact Registry (NPDNC), the nation’s only political do not call advocacy group located at StopPoliticalCalls.org, today announced it is investigating a South Carolina law that bans robocalls. The NPDNC will move to demand that the South Carolina Attorney General as well as the SC Department of Consumer Affairs enforce the existing law: SECTION 16-17-446. Regulation of automatically dialed announcing device (ADAD). The law bans all robo calls in the state of South Carolina specifically, “ADAD calls include automatically announced calls of a political nature including, but not limited to, calls relating to political campaigns.”
Press Release · Sep 22, 2008
Non-Partisan Group Seeks To Shut Down Political Robocalls In California Before Fall Election
Advocacy Group Investigating Un-enforced Law in California Banning Robocalls
Press Release · Jul 28, 2008