re: Beta O’Rourke campaign denies sending texts encouraging illegal voting

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Shouldn’t it be pretty straightforward to find the sender? As a criminal act was mentioned shouldn’t the police be able to investigate?

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Beta's campaign hasn't demanded an investigation.

Among mass-texters, Mr. O’Rourke has been particularly aggressive. The campaign has used Relay, an app developed by alumni of Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign, to contact millions of Texas voters with messages urging them to donate, attend local events and pledge their support on Election Day. Progressive groups have rallied behind his “texting team,” with guides and an instructional video to teach volunteers how to use Relay and Slack, a team messaging app used by the campaign. And the campaign has set a goal of texting all 3.5 million cellphones contained in a statewide voter records database.

If someone infiltrated Mr. O’Rourke’s texting team and sent messages to his supporters encouraging illegal voting, it would mark one of the first notable acts of political sabotage involving text messages. A call to the number that sent the suspicious messages returned an automated message from Relay, the texting app used by the O’Rourke campaign. LINK