GOP Operative Sentenced For Voter Suppression Scheme

GOP Consultant Sentenced in Phone Jamming

By TIM McCAHILL

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The former head of a Republican consulting group was sentenced Tuesday to five months in jail for jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities during the 2002 election.

Allen Raymond, who was president of the Alexandria, Va.-based GOP Marketplace LLC at the time, did not comment as he left the U.S. District Court sentencing. He also was fined $15,600.

He had pleaded guilty in July.

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