How Republicans Use Robo Calls To Try To Steal Elections

Today TPMMuckracker has more excerpts from former GOP operative Allen Raymond's upcoming book. In this excerpt Allen talks about how Republicans bombarded Democrats with racist phone calls in order to drive down turnout in Rush Holt's congressional race in 2002.

"Oh," I said, quickly doing the polarizing-voter math in my head. "How about 'angry black man'?"

"Yeah, that sounds good. What's his voice sound like?"

So I cued up one particular actor's CD on my computer and put the phone to the speaker. The track I played was one in which the actor was deliberately playing up a street gang character.

After listening for a few seconds, Blakely said, "That's the guy!"

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Mitt Romney has been robo calling the board of elections in my county.

I hang up on him.

;p

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Esmeralda on December 20, 2007 at 06:46 PM

I got a Republican robo-call on my cell phone last week. I had enough of that crap in 2006.
At least they should be forced to use humans so I could cuss them out.

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Butte on December 20, 2007 at 11:52 PM

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