It means that votes are diluted such that it’s nearly impossible for the state to turn despite the fact that most of its voters have.
And while, yes that isn’t mutually exclusive to Texas, we weren’t talking about them were we?
It’s just a way to ensure that a sizeable population isn’t adequately represented.
Population density:
Political Leaning
Districting:
Or, maybe it’s because they’re gerrymander’d to shit?
Tyranny by majority…
The phrase itself doesn’t matter, they are just listening for some indication of human speech at the start of the call.
If nothing is said, then the system believes that it is a machine doing the same thing.
Provided, of course, that their spam system doesn’t just starts playing a recorded message anyway.
Iirc, that’s usually a sign that the robot caller has found a machine on the other end, since most people first respond with some sort of greeting right off the bat.
That’s fair.
To that end, they’d have to start banning all the 24-hr talking heads from being able to call themselves news channels and regulate the term.
As it stands there’s no way to flip the counties that that’ll just listen to that drivel all day telling them to vote against their own interests.