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Tired of political text messages? Here's how to put a stop to them:

Rise in political text messages
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Political text messages spiked in the month of September, and experts say to expect even more this month.

Robokiller, the company that makes robocall blocking software, counted 1.1 billion political texts last month. That's in addition to 68-million election-related robocalls. It's significantly more than in August. Republicans have sent almost double the number of text messages as Democrats.

Research shows that text messages have an open rate as high as 98%, making it a prime method of choice to contact voters. By comparison, email has an open rate of just 20%.
It's important to know you can revoke your consent at any time.

If you want to terminate text communication from political campaigns, reply back with "STOP" in all caps, or other terms associated with opt-out requests, like "End," "Unsubscribe," "Cancel," "Quit," or "Please opt me out."

The only stipulation is that you may have to separately opt-out for each political text sent from a different candidate.

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