AMERICAblog: A blog for a great nation that deserves the truth: “GOP ‘robo-call’ scandal grows, now hitting Washington state as well
by John in DC – 11/06/2006 05:20:00 PM
UPDATE: Add New Jersey to the growing list of states where the Republican party is trying to defraud voters with fake phone calls.
UPDATE: Fraudulent calls hitting Virginia voters too. In Virginia, Democratic voters are getting phone calls telling them they’ll be arrested (Markos has the audio via the link above).
The fraudulent GOP voter-intimidation scam has now hit Washington state. Other states being targeted by the GOP calls, that we know of so far, include Pennsylvania, Kansas, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and New York.
We are the point of needing an FBI investigation because this is now clearly happening across the country in a clearly coordinated way (across interstate lines, mind you).
The Republican party is engaging in a campaign to defraud the voters and Democratic congressional campaigns by making phone calls to voters, often late at night and repeated, and making the voters think that the calls are coming from the Democratic campaigns when in fact they’re coming from the Republicans.
This is fraud. It an effort to steal the vote. It violates a number of consumer telemarketing laws, and more.
We already knew the GOP had decided to run racist and anti-semitic ads in the South a”
::Tullycast:: 