"Thank you for your thoughts on this matter, I didn't read them. Here is a boilerplate statement espousing all the great things about this bill that you specifically criticized in your message to me. Please don't reach out again."
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"Email your senator" is just about the most pointless waste of time aside from watching paint dry. Every time I've done it, I get a canned response that clearly shows nobody read it, just a robot that scans for keywords and generates a response based on that. "Let me tell you why all the things you are upset about are actually good things, and remember to vote for me!"
I wonder if they do statistics on the emails that come in to get a general idea of the group sentiment.
This is exactly what they do. Interns look at them (or some text comparison output) and take a general temperature.