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December 2, 2006
Paying the Price for Cheating Democracy
MANCHESTER, N.H. --A judge has ruled New Hampshire Democrats can go after more than just the cost of renting and using telephones that were jammed by Republicans on Election Day four years ago.The ruling offers the Democrats the right to argue the GOP jamming in 2002 hindered their attempt to boost voter turnout.
Republicans wanted Judge Philip Mangones to rule the Democrats could only claim $4,974 in damages -- the cost of renting and using phones for the get-out-the-vote campaign. Democrats argued they should be able to go after more than $4 million in damages -- the cost of seven months of work for the get-out-the-vote effort.
That's nearly half of what Democrats spent on their effort, which was disrupted for nearly two hours the day it was supposed to pay off.
Interesting little development here. As we know phone jamming is a standard sort of election disenfranchisement technique used by the GOP over the last decade or so. We even had problems here in Maryland with them trying similar activities on us. We kept having to change numbers in the days before the election sometimes every couple of hours to get ahead of their efforts. My question is this: What's the hold up? Let's get started on suing them!! We know the GOP is filled with criminals and it's only a matter of getting them where they belong!
Read more over at DNC and The Boston Globe.
Posted by Jamison at December 2, 2006 8:03 AM
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