[Vision2020] Idaho Call Center Linked To Criminal Vote Supression In New Hampshire 2002 Election

[Ted Moffett]

I'm not sure if information on this case has been posted to Vision2020, but
unlike many cases of vote or voter suppression/délétion/flipping, of one
kind or another, at least some of those involved were held accountable:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=2002_Election_NH_%22Phone_Jamming%22_Case

The *2002 Election NH "phone jamming" case* revolves around the hiring by
the New Hampshire Republican Party of the Virginia-based telemarketing firm GOP
Marketplace <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOP_Marketplace>.
Republican operative Allen
Raymond<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Allen_Raymond&action=edit>,
who was president of the firm at the time, then "subcontracted the deed" to
Mylo Enterprises Inc., a Pocatello, Idaho, phone bank shop.

Prosecutors allege that 'GOP Marketplace' "was paid to make repeated hang-up
phone calls to overwhelm the phone banks in New Hampshire and prevent them
from getting Democratic voters to the polls" on Election Day, November 5,
2002. Six phone lines that were being run by Democratic "coordinated
campaign offices," as well as phones in the offices of the Manchester
firefighters union -- which was also doing a get-out-the-vote campaign that
morning -- were jammed by 800 computer-generated hang up calls that tied up
the lines for 1 1/2 hours.
[3]<http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/305320.shtml>
[4]<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/10/national/w231835D50.DTL&type=printable>

Voters' rights were violated as the "computer-generated calls went to lines
set up for voters who needed rides to the polls in Manchester, Nashua,
Rochester and Claremont." The calls were "stopped after then-Republican
State Committee Chairman John Dowd ordered a halt because of concerns about
their legality."
[5]<http://www.seacoastcareers.com/2004news/07162004/news/26988.htm>
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_New_Hampshire_Senate_election_phone_jamming_scandal

Sentences

Allen Raymond <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Raymond> was sentenced to
five months in federal prison on February
8<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_8>,
2005 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005>, for his role. A month later, Charles
McGee <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McGee> received seven months.

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