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Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House (New Hampshire 2002 election 'controversy')
AP Yahoo ^ | 4/10/06 | Larry Margasak - ap

Posted on 04/10/2006 8:03:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

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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)


1 posted on 04/10/2006 8:03:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

I wonder if James Tobin will be working for McCain or Schwarzenegger? :-}


2 posted on 04/10/2006 8:05:36 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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Do they vote over the phone in NH and didn't Kerry win the state anyway?


3 posted on 04/10/2006 8:07:27 PM PDT by Naptowne
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To: NormsRevenge

President Bush smiles as he is introduced to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington Friday, April 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)


4 posted on 04/10/2006 8:07:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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how many "college students" arrived from Boston or were bussed in to register same day and VOTE?
Answer: hundreds, perhaps thousands.


5 posted on 04/10/2006 8:08:55 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


6 posted on 04/10/2006 8:08:58 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (In the end it does not matter if you win. All men die. What matters is how you lived. No surrender)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


7 posted on 04/10/2006 8:10:04 PM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: MNJohnnie

Good point.

I bet there are some folks who call the WH at least 2 dozen times a day, election time or not. ;-)


8 posted on 04/10/2006 8:10:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Have you hugged an illegal alien today?)
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To: Naptowne

This was a 2002 election case. Kerry didn't run.


9 posted on 04/10/2006 8:10:41 PM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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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.


10 posted on 04/10/2006 8:12:15 PM PDT by weegee ("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
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To: weegee

I got you. They have all been blurring together since Y2K.


11 posted on 04/10/2006 8:13:42 PM PDT by Naptowne
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"The White House declined to say which staffer was assigned that phone number in 2002.

"As policy, we don't discuss ongoing legal proceedings within the courts," White House spokesman Ken Lisaius said. "

It would seem like they could answer that factual question without commenting on the investigation.

Also, did something happen to Scott McClellan or does more than one person have that title?
12 posted on 04/10/2006 8:13:48 PM PDT by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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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.


13 posted on 04/10/2006 8:19:44 PM PDT by Paul8148
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To: weegee
There were also some RAT party members in Wisconsin whose kids vandalized some buses. They were tried and slapped on the wrist. No press coverage.
14 posted on 04/10/2006 8:20:44 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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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.


15 posted on 04/10/2006 8:22:30 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: acapesket

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)


16 posted on 04/10/2006 8:28:39 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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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.


17 posted on 04/10/2006 8:32:03 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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"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."

Election tampering is bad for several reasons. First, it's wrong, its undemocratic (little d). Second it taints everybody around the people who do it - all the tamperer has to do is call someone innocent associated with their party and they put that person at risk. Third, it's stupid because it risks validating the nasty things being said about recent Republican victories risking a backlash at the polls.
18 posted on 04/10/2006 8:41:25 PM PDT by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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"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.


19 posted on 04/10/2006 8:43:36 PM PDT by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68
The Dems are pissed off that their efforts to commit voter fraud were hampered by have busy phone lines. I'm sure that without our opposition the Dems would have been able to pass out far more 'walking around money' during their 'get out the vote' campaign.

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.

20 posted on 04/10/2006 8:53:24 PM PDT by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies.....)
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