Direct marketing from a candidate?

DubVelo

So I put myself on the supplement to the electoral register the other week.
I checked the 'Opt Out' box to be left off the 'Edited Register' so as not to have my details given to companies/organisations for direct marketing etc.

Today I've got a letter through the door from a local candidate addressed to me by name, welcoming me to the register and asking for my vote on Friday.

This seems kinda not cool. Thoughts?

Godge

http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/LocalGovernment/Voting/FileDownLoad,1897,en.pdf

"Since 2004, registration authorities are required to publish two versions of the register – the full register and the edited register. The full register lists everyone who is entitled to vote and can only be used for an electoral or other statutory purpose. The edited register contains the names and addresses of persons whose details can be used for a purpose other than an electoral or other statutory purpose, e.g. for direct marketing use by a commercial or other organisation"


If the person writing to you is an election candidate then the register is being used for an electoral or statutory purpose and it is fully legitimate.

Sunny Dayz

My hubbie got a text this morning from a local candidate asking for his vote. But he doesn't know where the candidate got his number from as he never gave it to him.

the_syco

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

My hubbie got a text this morning from a local candidate asking for his vote. But he doesn't know where the candidate got his number from as he never gave it to him.

Text back and ask, although I'm assuming it's a service that a company has provided to the candidate.

Sunny Dayz

he rang the number back but got no answer

MouseTail

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

My hubbie got a text this morning from a local candidate asking for his vote. But he doesn't know where the candidate got his number from as he never gave it to him.

This is in serious breach. All candidates got a letter informing them they could not contact voters by text or email, unless that voter had given express permission to be contacted for that purpose within last 12 months.

This was to clamp down on the very dubious practice of clubs giving candidates access to their mailing lists. Report this breach to the Standards in Public Office.

Sunny Dayz

Spoke to hubbie last night. Eejit gave the canvassers his number!! :rolleyes: hubbie said he gave them no cos canvasser was involved in local gaa which we were enquiring about. Canvasser said he got the number about transferring my hubbies vote - which my hubbie actually sorted out himself.