Most charges dropped in phone jamming RW election fraud

"What the court has basically done is reduced this claim, this lawsuit, to a small claims complaint," said Ovide Lamontagne, a lawyer for the Republicans. "A thousand dollars of damage is what we think they could probably show for the interruption of phones for an hour and a half."
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The get-out-the-vote and ride-to-the-polls phone banks run by Democrats and the nonpartisan Manchester firefighters union were jammed for more than an hour on Election Day 2002, during a hotly contested U.S. Senate race between then-Democratic Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and Republican John Sununu. Sununu won by about 20,000 votes.

James Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, a former regional chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign, was convicted in December of two felony telephone harassment charges but acquitted of a third, more serious charge of conspiring against voters' rights. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison.

Former GOP Marketplace president Allen Raymond and former state Republican Committee Executive Director Charles McGee pleaded guilty in the case and testified against Tobin. McGee served seven months, and Raymond received a three-month sentence.