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May 18, 2006
Not Long Enough
I just found out about this story a couple of months ago and was absolutely appalled by the attempts of a Republican candidate to jam the GOTV calls on election day. Truly disgraceful and he should have received a longer sentence:
A former Republican National Committee official was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months in prison for his role in the jamming of New Hampshire Democrats' telephones on Election Day 2002.
James Tobin, the third person sent to prison in the case, was found guilty in December of harassment by telephone. Prosecutors had asked for two years behind bars.
Prosecutors said Tobin helped arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines set up by the state Democratic Party and the Manchester firefighters' union for about an hour. Republican John Sununu defeated then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen for the Senate that day in what had been considered a cliffhanger.
Election fraud, like lying under oath, are SERIOUS because they rip at the fabric of our republic. It should never be tolerated by either party.
Posted by Aaron at May 18, 2006 07:21 PM
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