GOP Marketplace head Allen Raymond pleads guilty to phone jamming

3 responses to “GOP Marketplace head Allen Raymond pleads guilty to phone jamming”

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   Anonymous

   July 2, 2004

   Let me preface by saying I think criminal acts shouldn't go unpunished and what these folks did was wrong and unethical.What I don't understand is how one equates phone calls and phone jamming to “preventing voters from voting”. I mean, unless we're talking American Idol voting by phone, or slashing tires on cars – I just don't see the proximate cause.

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   Anonymous

   July 2, 2004

   Jason – didn't claim he prevented people from voting. But what he did do was deliberately engage in a practice designed to frustrate efforts to turn out the vote. Very different issue.Unfortunately, many in the country take voting for granted. And both parties regularly employ election day phone banking designed to encourage people to get out and vote – including rides to polling places, etc. And when those organizations are prevented from making their phone calls, the result is that their vote turn-out will almost certainly be lower than it would otherwise have been.The guilty plea was concerning harassing phone calls, not interfering with voting. That the latter happened because of the former was the design, of course, but hardly the crime.

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   Anonymous

   July 2, 2004

   I agree that voting should never be messed with. As such, I'm curious what you think of the concerted effort by some Democrats to challenge Ralph Nader's existence on many states' ballots in November. For a group who feigned such outrage in 2000, claiming their actions were “just so everybody had the chance to vote for his/her candidate” – it sure seems like they're doing everything they can to prevent many Americans from being able to vote for their candidate of choice – Nader.

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