Voting fraud occurred all over the U.S. The GOP talking points were that fraud was occurring against them or that it was all rumor or whining.
From AP:
"Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.
James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four felonies accusing him of conspiring with a state GOP official and a GOP consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks in November 2002."
A zero-tolerance policy means absolutely nothing for the GOP or the Administration. On top of no accountability, it is cover up and quiet maintenance all the while espousing all the family valuesspeak that can be jammed into a sound bite.
"A telephone firm was paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls to overwhelm the phone banks in New Hampshire and prevent them from getting Democratic voters to the polls on Election Day 2002, prosecutors allege. Republican John Sununu won a close race that day to be New Hampshire's newest senator."
How fitting with the Voting Right Act about to expire.
posted by niteskolar @ 7:56 AM
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