Guilty! Jurors Return Mixed Phone-Jamming Verdict

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Jurors Return Mixed Phone-Jamming Verdict
Jurors Return Mixed Verdict in Election Phone-Jamming Case Against Ex-GOP Official
The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. - 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 Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was accused of orchestrating the phone-jamming.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1410673&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

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1. When will the re-vote be held?

I want to pencil it in on my calendar.

[Warpy]

2. It won't, the judge decided that nobody's rights were violated

If they couldn't get a ride to the polls, that was their fault for being too criminally poor or sick to drive.

This is an ugly verdict, Tobin will get his cologned wrist slapped, and the dirty tricksters will have carte blanche to go ahead and do whatever they want to.