Campaign volunteers hit with obscene images after sending texts

As peer-to-peer messaging becomes a popular campaign tool, volunteers face a new danger - unwanted replies

Campaign volunteers have always faced certain hazards when they go out and engage in democracy. For phone bankers, there are hang-ups; for canvassers, a door slammed in the face.

But as more campaigns turn to peer-to-peer texting as an efficient and effective form of contacting voters, a new danger has arisen: unsolicited dick pics.