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You are probably aware but in Germany the citizen's registration offices give out names, addresses and age of every voter (that hasn't told them not to) to the political parties ahead of an election. I haven gotten personally addressed mail ads before. Thankfully no robocalls but "driving elderly from the retirement homes to the polling place in party branded vans" is a thing here.


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