NEWS: Republican Phone-Jammers Sentenced

POLITICS: Republican Phone-Jammers Sentenced

Republican consulting group GOP Marketplace LLC was slapped on the wrist today in U.S. District Court for disrupting Democratic voter access to polling places in Manchester, Nashua, Rochester and Claremont in New Hampshire in 2002. Company president Allen Raymond received a $15,600 fine and 5 months of jail time for conspiring with party leaders to ensure Democrats would have a hard time getting a ride to the polls.

The New Hampshire Republican Party claims they only hired GOP Marketplace for telemarketing services prior to the election to encourage people to vote Republican. However, the executive director of the party plead also guilty to the same charges.

Restricting access to the polls, anyone?

I'm stunned the republican party would stoop to such levels....stunned.

Well, people who dont agree with you should never have the right to vote.

Heh.. I got impatient and started a thread with this article already. Heh..

Actually...I'm not

sarcasm I think.
I'm stunned that a political party would violate the law. Simply stunned.

well damn. too bad it took them 2 years to do it. wonder how long til they find discrepancies in the '04 election?

January 21st, 2009.

I think it's more about who gets caught.
Dem fraud in 2002

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Please people...do we honestly expect the major parties to act in a decent and fair manner? Ain't gonna happen.

Democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.

Can anyone say Snowbirds double-dipping their votes in Florida and New York

Since s5 thinks that the Republicans are "not a crook" party. Id figure it was time someone remined everyone that Democrats have done just as terrible things and NO ONE got even there wrist slapped for that one.

You know, I haven't actually seen any hard evidence of this NY/Florida allegation. Care to back this up with anything at all?

Dude, rumor is so much better when you shout it in bold. Facts get in the way of hearsay.



[Edited on Feb 09, 2005 by BillHaverchuck]

Well it isn't as bad as the democrats who slit tires on vehicles that were going to be used to pick people up and take them to the polls.

IIRC, they were some democratic lawmaker's kids even.

Crap I wish we had more parties. Then we could get some really intense three-way shit-flinging.

Proof, please.

You never heard about this?

It was all over the news around election day.

From the article:

Not nearly equivalent, sorry. Those charged weren't high-ranking state Dem officials, they were pranksters who made a criminally bad decision when they went from stickers to vandalism, and they should be punished if found guilty.

See my link above for details.

I don't think there has been any direct proof of high level democratic party involvement, but considering the facts that they are relatives of a democratic representative, and were in a car rented by a democratic campaign staffer, I'd say it wouldn't be a surprise.

And considering the amount of tires slashed (at least 10 vehicles, maybe more?). The tireslashers could easily have prevented as many people voting as jamming a phone line for 90 minutes. The phone jammers prevented anyone who called during that 90 minutes from getting a ride, the tire slashers prevented anyone from getting a ride at all.

Then there is the fact that one act caused physical damage while the other did not. Yeah, I'd say slashing 40 tires is worse than jamming a phone line for 90 minutes.