How do I get political robocalls to stop calling my phone?

I canceled my land line.

@syz It’s my cellphone (and I’m going to edit that into the question).

If someone you know calls you, does their number typically come up on your phone? If so, I would just send all of the “unknown” calls to voice mail. Unfortunately, political calls are exempt from the “do not call” registry, so there isn’t anyone to report them to.

I think, though I could be wrong, that about the only way could protest is to call or email each candidate from whom you receive a call and lodge a complaint. I doubt that it will stop the calls, but at least you could get it off your chest.

@tedibear Yes, my phone has caller ID.

@tedibear‘s idea (“just send all of the “unknown” calls to voice mail.”) is a good one, I think.
Maybe add a pre-recorded voice mail welcome message: “In case you are a political robocaller…, I am not interested, so please hang up. However, in case you persist, I’ll vote for the opponent.”

@Aethelflaed – Yes, I understood that. What I meant was that if the numbers and/or names of people you want to talk to come up, you can choose to pick up for them. Just let the rest roll. Unfortunately, if the robocalls are leaving messages, that can make a mess of your voice mail.

@rebbel – Sadly, these calls aren’t made by people who will hear the message. It’s just a pre-recorded message sent by an automatic dialing system. If they have not yet arrived in the Netherlands, be very grateful!

@tedibear Oh my, that is…..., sci-fi-ish…., terrible.
So you can’t even tell them to bugger off?
And fortunately it hasn’t arrived here yet, and I don’t see that happening any time soon too.
We have pretty strict rules on annoying tele-marketeers already in place.

I wish I knew! I just hang up fast. Sometime I leave my phone off the hook until it makes that “your phone is off the hook” noise starts. They can’t use that phone until the connection is broken.
With cell phones, do you say something other than the phone is off the hook? I don’t have a cell phone and haven’t learned the terms.

@Sunny2 Cell phones don’t really have an “off the hook” option. I mean, I can turn off the wireless connections via “airplane mode”, and then I also can’t receive texts or calls or surf the net (but can play Angry Birds), but then the calls just go straight to voicemail, and I still have to deal with the voicemail. But you can’t really have it in “call” mode without making an actual call, to a number.

@Aethelflaed Thank you. Maybe I’ll eventually come into the 21st century, but I’m fighting it.

@Sunny2 No problem.