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The former head of a GOP Marketplace, a Republican consulting group, has pleaded guilty to jamming get-out-the-vote efforts [7] on election day in New Hampshire two years ago. The company used computer-generated phone calls to flood phone lines that were set up so voters could call for rides to the polls. It's just one example of right-wing efforts to "block the vote [8]" that we describe in our book, Banana Republicans [9]. If anyone would like to create a Disinfopedia [10] article about this scam, you can still find a copy of the GOP Marketplace website [11] at the Internet archive.
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/13916/sheldon-rampton
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics/right-wing
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/ethics
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/politics
[6] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F06%2F2759%2Fgops-denial-democracy-attack&linkname=GOP%27s%20Denial%20of%20Democracy%20Attack
[7] http://www.politicsnj.com/kornacki021003_Raymond.htm
[8] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Banana_Republicans:_Block_the_Vote
[9] http://www.bananarepublicans.org
[10] http://www.disinfopedia.org
[11] http://www.gopmarketplace.com
[12] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/01/politics/main627138.shtml