Allen Raymond

Allen Raymond is a former Republican political consultant in the United States who spent three months in federal prison for his role in the 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal, for which he was convicted of making harassing phone calls across state lines, a felony.^[1] Raymond is the author of the book, How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative (2008).

Phone jamming scandal

Raymond told investigators that his former

Raymond then collected $15,600 from the New Hampshire Republican State Committee and paid a small Idaho telemarketing company $2,300 to make non-stop hangup phone calls to six New Hampshire phone lines, five of which were being used by the Democratic Party to get out the vote. The sixth phone line belonged to the Manchester Firefighters' Union, which offers free rides to the polls.

In an interview with the

• Appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on October 24, 2008, talking about his book
• Appeared on The Daily Show January 17, 2008
• Appeared on
  The Rachel Maddow Show
  on January 27, 2009

Books

• ISBN 1-4165-5222-7
  ).