allen raymond of gop marketplace pleads guilty to jamming phones
a new hampshire republican political scandal scores a guilty plea…
Ex-GOP consultant pleads to phone-jamming [ap via seattle post intelligencer]The former head of a Republican consulting group has pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities on Election Day two years ago.
The jamming involved more than 800 computer-generated calls and lasted for about 1 1/2 hours on Nov. 5, 2002, the day voters decided several races, including a close Senate contest between outgoing Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and GOP Rep. John E. Sununu, who won by fewer than 20,000 votes.
The lines that were jammed were set up so voters could call for rides to the polls. Democrats say the jamming was an organizaed, statewide effort that may have even affected the outcome of some local races.
i hope they dig deep on this one. even bad voting machines are no good if there’s a conspiracy to keep voters from the polls. yeah, i said it. conspiracy.
i doubt this phone-jamming effort stopped 20,000 voters from getting to vote, but even considering this a valid tactic smells just a bit too much like christie key. it may have been a rational decision in this win-at-all-costs society, but they got caught. it’s critical that the sanctions for this behavior are severe enough to send a clue to every political consultant who gets a neat idea about coming between people and their votes.
