Democrats Admit to Electoral Fraud in 2004 Election

Democrats Admit to Electoral Fraud
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Good, get the bums out of there.

 

Ah, James Tobin! It warms my heart...

Republicans Defending Bush Campaigner Charged with Election Fraud
by Brendan Coyne (bio)

Aug 12, 2005 - Officials with the Republican Party reversed course this week and admitted to the Associated Press that they paid over $700,000 toward the defense of a former Bush campaign official charged with mid-term election fraud and tampering in New Hampshire.

James Tobin, the New England Chairman of the 2004 Bush reelection campaign, is accused, along with two others, of trying to keep voters from the polls during the 2002 elections. The indictment charges that Tobin, a former state party official and a Virginia lobbyist, attempted to jam the lines of union and Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks during the election.

Allegedly, the plan involved contracting a telemarketing company to place enough calls to five state Democratic Party offices and the Manchester Firefighters Association, which was offering transportation to the polls, according to the indictment.

The National Republican Party has spent over $722,000 defending Tobin against the charges, the AP said.

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2217

Oops!

Looks like someone was convicted. Think he'll just get probation?


Republican Official Convicted in Phone-Jamming Scheme in New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H. Dec 15, 2005 — A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges Thursday for his part in a plot to jam the Democrats' phones on Election Day 2002.

The federal jury acquitted James Tobin of the most serious charge against him, of conspiring to violate voters' rights.

Tobin, 45, of Bangor, Maine, was President Bush's New England campaign chairman last year. He could get up seven years in prison and $500,000 in fines when he is sentenced in March.

For nearly two hours on Election Day 2002, hundreds of hang-up calls overwhelmed Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks in New Hampshire and a ride-to-the-polls line run by Manchester's firefighters union.

Tobin, who at the time was New England chairman of Bush's re-election campaign and a top regional official of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, was accused of orchestrating the phone-jamming.


http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1411340

 

This is nothing new. The Dems have been using every trick in the book for years now. Remember when they signed up illegal immigrants en-masse to vote for Loretta Sanchez in the election that ousted Robert Dornan? Democrats are slime.

 

For SHAME!!!

Democrats wanting everyone in America joining in the democratic process and vote!!!! I'm shocked! SHOCKED!!!

 

Yeah I remember that claim that was never substantiated.

 

howbout redistricting to purposely disenfranchise voters?

 

QFT.

Slashing a few tires isnt as grand as redoing district lines.

 

Before we rush to judgment, these allegations are made by former staffers, who are most likely disgruntled. Their credibility is in question, particularly given the fact that the Democrats are distancing themselves from these individuals...

 

Glad to see you agree with us on the Tobin (GOP muckety-muck, high-level Frist guy) phone-jamming scandal.

 

some people are so desperate for bad news; this story is hardly even a blip on the radar. the only people left discussing are the right wing blogsters

 

did they plead no contest to misdemeanor of slashing tires? or of voter fraud?

do you have the actual link to a news article (sorry no blogs) where the defendents has pleaded no contest to voter fraud or they have been convicted of voter fraud??

 

I agree, it is a r****ded argument to make.