Interesting article on how one individual "rigged an election"
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The former Republican political operative went to federal prison after he pleaded guilty to charges of phone harassment. He jammed the phone lines of New Hampshire's Democratic Party on Election Day six years ago
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Democrats insist the phone jamming operation in New Hampshire had national implications. The balance of power in the U.S. Senate was on the line that year and the Senate race between Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican John Sununu was decided by just 19,000. Sununu won.
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/...ion/index.html
Are we sure that the US is a democracy? I don't think I have ever heard of anything like this in Canada (or in Belgium, when I lived there)...