New Hampshire Phone Jamming

Phone Service Restored To NH Dems After Scare

Rachel Slajda | November 2, 2010, 9:42AM

After phone service at 11 local campaign offices went down yesterday afternoon, prompting fears of a 2002-style sabotage, the New Hampshire Democratic Party now says service is back up.

The party's executive director, Mike Brunelle, tells TPMmuckraker that phone service at the party's call banks is "almost fully operational."

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New Hampshire

Reports Of Phone Trouble In NH; Dems, Wary Of 2002-Style Sabotage, Call AG

Rachel Slajda | November 1, 2010, 9:09PM

The New Hampshire Democrats this afternoon lost phone service at their local campaign offices in 11 towns, prompting them to notify the state attorney general and put out a press release.

The cause of the outage was not known as of Monday evening. The Democrats said they took the precaution of notifying authorities based on what happened in 2002, when the state Republican Party purposely jammed the Dems' phones in order to sabotage their get out the vote effort. The scheme eventually ended in the criminal convictions of the party's executive director and a political consultant.

There's no sign of nefarious activity yet. A spokesman for the Republican Party said they were also experiencing phone outages at several of their phone banks.

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