Political texting
A political text is a text to a person who agreed to receive it, sent by a campaign that is registered to send it. The calendar is tighter than a shop’s. The rules are not looser.
This is a product note, not legal advice. Federal and state campaign rules are their own body of law. The Federal Election Commission publishes the federal side. Counsel for the committee is who signs off on a program.
Consent and registration
The person still has to have agreed to hear from the campaign. A voter file is not that agreement. The same consent rule applies, and so does a working STOP.
Carriers still want a 10DLC campaign. “Polling and voting” in the standard use-case list is for surveys. It is not the filing for a candidate or a committee. That registration is its own use. What 10DLC is explains brand, campaign, and throughput. If you are not sure which filing fits, write support@entrancegrp.com before you submit the form. Daily volume follows the trust score, which matters in the last weeks, when everyone sends at once.
What to send
One of these: a deadline, a location, an event, or a single ask for a reply. A text that does all four gets skimmed, and the replies become impossible to sort.
Polls are open until 8. Your site is P.S. 234, 0.4 miles from the address we have. Reply if you need a ride. STOP to opt out.
Write the fields the way they will be read. A bad cell in a voter file sounds even worse than a bad cell in a shop file, because the reader did not ask to decode your spreadsheet.
What to do with the reply
Questions, ride requests, and volunteers come back to the same thread. On Entrance they wait in the claims queue until someone takes them. A blast with no one on the replies is how a campaign burns a list in an afternoon.
Book a demo if you want to see the workspace against a real send. Bring the opt-in language and a sample message. Those are the two things registration will ask for anyway.