In West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, Democratic activists were working the phones to undo what they suspected was a Republican-led effort to suppress the vote.
On Sept. 1, several registered voters called the Berkeley County voter registration office in Martinsburg, saying they had received phone calls notifying them that they were not on the rolls or would not, for technical reasons, be allowed to vote.
One resident used caller ID to trace the call to the county Republican Party headquarters.
West Virginia GOP spokeswoman Mary Diamond later told a television interviewer that the calls might have been a misguided effort to “make sure everyone is registered to vote.”
[from the Washington Post]
