Dec

19

Election Day Phone Pranks

[From The J-Walk Blog]

I forgot about this story: GOP Official Convicted in Phone-Jamming.

A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges Thursday for his part in a plot to jam the Democrats’ phones on Election Day 2002.

The federal jury acquitted James Tobin of the most serious charge against him, of conspiring to violate voters’ rights.

For nearly two hours on Election Day 2002, hundreds of hang-up calls overwhelmed Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks in New Hampshire and a ride-to-the-polls line run by Manchester’s firefighters union.

Tobin, who at the time was New England chairman of Bush’s re-election campaign and a top regional official of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, was accused of orchestrating the phone-jamming.

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