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by skulk 1596 days ago
> Go through the effort of handwriting a letter is going to add quite a bit of weight to your message.

Really? is there even a slight chance that Rep. XYZ actually reads my letter and it doesn't get filtered out by an aide as "spam"? And furthermore, once read does my letter actually hold any weight against moneyed interests? It feels like an utterly futile and pointless exercise to pretend democracy still works.

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