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It is also necessary to address the issue of the ban of political campaigns during the day before the election, whose nature clashes with that of the internet as an asynchronous medium, in which content is permanent and accessible to everyone at all times, without political parties needing to take any action whatsoever: political events, messages, videos, propaganda, etc. from the entire campaign are available to the citizen, including the day before the election. The problem is of a quantitative nature, as a similar problem can be noted with regards to electoral posters that fill the streets throughout the campaign and whose immediate withdrawal the day before the election is not only impossible but also has never been proposed as a guarantee for the electoral process. It also seems clear that the mass mailing of emails and SMS as part of the campaign or further electoral advertisement the day before the election would contradict the logic of the current legislation.