Posted on 04/10/2006 8:03:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Bush campaign operative James Tobin of Bangor, Maine, arrives at U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H., Dec. 6, 2005, for trial on charges of helping jam Democrats get-out-the vote phone lines in New Hampshire on Election Day 2002. Democrats are scheduled to ask a federal judge Tuesday, April 11, 2006, to order GOP and White House officials to answer questions about the phone jamming in a civil lawsuit alleging voter fraud. (AP Photo/Jim Cole/File)
I wonder if James Tobin will be working for McCain or Schwarzenegger? :-}
Do they vote over the phone in NH and didn't Kerry win the state anyway?
President Bush smiles as he is introduced to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Friday, April 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
how many "college students" arrived from Boston or were bussed in to register same day and VOTE?
Answer: hundreds, perhaps thousands.
Curious. Where is the coverage of the Voter fraud conviction in Wisconsin from 2000, 2002 or 2004? Oh that right, they only print DNC approved propaganda at Asso Press.
Who was it that pulled power to the GOP office in Pittsburgh on election day 2004?
Who was it that slashed the tires of two dozen rented vehicles in St. Louis outside of GOP offices on election day 2004?
I am unfamiliar with this case but will look into it. I AM familiar with some grand schemes in 2004 on the left.
Good point.
I bet there are some folks who call the WH at least 2 dozen times a day, election time or not. ;-)
This was a 2002 election case. Kerry didn't run.
Robert Kelner, a Washington lawyer representing the Republican National Committee in the civil litigation, said there was no connection between the phone jamming operation and the calls to the White House and party officials.
"On Election Day, as anybody involved in politics knows, there's a tremendous volume of calls between political operatives in the field and political operatives in Washington," Kelner said.
"If all you're pointing out is calls between Republican National Committee regional political officials and the White House political office on Election Day, you're pointing out nothing that hasn't been true on every Election Day," he said.
I got you. They have all been blurring together since Y2K.
Was the McCain tatic in 2000 to call "soft bush voters" a dozen times the night before the election, claiming to be for the Bush campign to piss them off.
Phone jamming, eh? LOL. It gives me great joy to know that the Republicans are ready, willing, and able to go down to the bottom of the sewer and fight the Democrats where they live. This phone jamming idea was pretty clever - - surely a lot more clever than the tire-slashing thuggery favored by the scumbags.
The only thing that's discouraging is that the phone jammers got caught.
I mean, c'mon - - there had to be a way to do this without getting caught.
They probably used the same bus company that moved voters from miami to broward since there are people who are registered in MULTIPLE FL counties. (hopefully the new single state database will fix that)
I do believe that "hang-up" calls to a boiler-room making outgoing calls as fast as they possibly can would have negligible effect.........in fact, unless the incoming call happened to catch a line that wasn't in use it would only get a busy signal and therefore require redialing.
I can't help but think this is a lot of hooey over nothing.
"Was the McCain tatic in 2000 to call "soft bush voters" a dozen times the night before the election, claiming to be for the Bush campign to piss them off."
I had not heard that but its pretty darn under handed - also it sounds like a lot of effort to possibly effect each vote.
Technically, had the operatives just programmed computer modems to dial the numbers repeatedly or have a fax machine sending blank pages over and over again they could have more plausibly done this instead of just calling and hanging up which gives you no plausible defense.
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