Phone jam

Portsmouth Herald Thundering silence from Washington

Posted by Damianmann

The basic facts of the now-infamous Election Day phone-jamming episode are not in dispute. On Nov. 5, 2002, New Hampshire Republicans used a Virginia telemarketing company to tie up telephone hot lines for about 90 minutes to thwart get-out-the-vote efforts by state Democrats and a firefighters union in Manchester. This should be a much bigger story than it is.

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