http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2005/...gop/print.html

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March 11, 2005 | CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The former executive director
of the New Hampshire Republican Party was sentenced Thursday to seven
months in prison for jamming Democratic telephone lines during the 2002
election.

Chuck McGee pleaded *guilty* to federal charges of conspiring to make
anonymous calls with the intent to annoy or harass. He was also fined
$2,000 and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.

McGee, who resigned in 2003, admitted paying $15,600 to a Virginia
telemarketing company that hired another business to call Democratic
Party offices around the state to disrupt their get-out-the-vote efforts
on Election Day.

The computer-generated calls _ more than 800 in all _ lasted for about
an hour and a half and also disrupted a union phone line.

"Actions of this nature strike at the core of the democratic process,"
U.S. District Judge Joseph DiClerico said.