on Oct 4th, 2007New Hampshire Senior Voter Suppression Republican Style
This old-new story blows me away. The executive director of the New Hampshire Republican party thought it was a good idea to jam phones so seniors and others being offered a ride to the voting polls were unable to request a ride. WTF!!! This is how a democracy works? A partisan official decides to implement a strategy to prevent people from voting??? Un**ing** believable! And yet, it’s so indicative of how Karl Rove did business. When winning becomes more important than the democratic principles at stake, it’s time to impeach the president for allowing such an attitude to exist in the first place. This kind of behavior is worse than torturing prisoners in Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib. This is treason, my friends.
The vote suppression/phone jamming operation was dreamed up in 2002 by Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, who obtained phone numbers of Democratic support groups offering Election Day rides to the polls, according to McGee’s court testimony. McGee then hired an Idaho telemarketing company to flood those numbers with phony calls, blocking all legitimate requests for help getting rides to the polls.
Initially, McGee’s plan worked perfectly. For two hours, the Idaho firm tied up Democratic Party and pro-Democratic union phone lines, preventing seniors and others needing a lift to their voting places from being able to request rides.
Mystery of 2002 GOP Phone-Jamming Scandal May Finally Be Solved