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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday acquitted a former Republican Party official accused of taking part in a plot to jam state Democratic Party phone lines on Election Day 2002.
James Tobin, the former regional chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign, was convicted in federal court in 2005 of helping arrange more than 800 hang-up calls that jammed get-out-the-vote phone lines set up by the state Democratic Party and the Manchester firefighters' union for about an hour.
Republican John Sununu defeated then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen for the Senate that day.
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