Just Fred wrote:

First things first: There is no such thing as voting by text message. Period. If you want to cast a ballot, you can vote at your polling station or vote absentee. That’s it.

But ads circulated on Twitter recently would have you believe otherwise.

Lifting imagery directly from Hillary Clinton’s campaign materials, the ads encourage supporters of the Democratic nominee to “vote early” and “vote from home” by texting their candidate’s name to a five-digit number.

“Save time. Avoid the line,” one reads.

“Vote early. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925,” says another.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/03/no-you-cant-text-your-vote-but-these-ads-tell-clinton-supporters-to-do-just-that/
 

Technically, you can vote by text message.......for reality TV shows.

Dumb people would find the ability to vote by text message as something that could be considered reasonable.

I would suspect however that the number of people who actually fall for this trick are few and very far between.

I should probably also note that while I am calling people that would fall for this texting scam dumb, John Podesta, who as Bill Clinton's chief of staff had the highest possible level of security clearance a person can have, got scammed into giving out his G-mail password.

Last edited by TheLagerLad (11/03/2016 12:24 pm)