KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Prepare for your home phone to start ringing with political robo-calls.

KMBC's Dan Weinbaum reported that there's not much you can do about the automated campaign calls, because most of them are legal.

"Probably mid-October, the last two weeks before the election, we expect people to get slammed with robo-calls," said Travis Ford, with the Missouri Attorney General's Consumer Education Office. "Robo-calls are legal and are exempt from the No-Call List, unfortunately."

Charities and political campaigns are allowed to bypass the No-Call List.

However, there are rules to robo-calls.

"Every automated political call must identify the sponsor that's paying for it, and No. 2, every call must give a callback number," Ford said.

The practice of automated calling continues to grow.

"Technology makes robo-calls cheaper and cheaper every year, so candidates can make thousands and thousands of calls for not much money," Ford said.

If you receive an illegal robo-call, contact the attorney general's office at 866-NOCALL-1.

You can request to be removed from a calling list by dialing the callback number.

On The Web

donotcall.gov

Register For Missouri No-Call List

stoppoliticalcalls.org