CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Prosecutors have won a new indictment against a former official of President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign for his alleged misconduct during the 2002 election.

The indictment renders moot multiple motions to dismiss filed by James Tobin, postponing a hearing scheduled for Friday in U.S. District Court. Tobin, of Bangor, Maine, will have to enter a new plea to the revised charges.

The new indictment charges Tobin with conspiring to deny New Hampshire residents their constitutional right to vote through a phone-jamming operation on Election Day 2002. That’s in addition to the former indictment charging him with conspiring to annoy and harass voters by telephone.

Brian Sierra, a U.S. Justice Department spokesman, said such superseding indictments are common in federal cases.

“It is basically a reworking of the charges,” he said.

Tobin sought to dismiss the previous indictment on grounds including that Democrats, the victims of the phone jamming, sat on the grand jury that made the charges.

Tobin and other Republican officials are accused of jamming five get-out-the-vote phone lines, four set up by Democrats, one by a nonpartisan union. Tobin is accused of helping Chuck McGee, then executive director of the state Republican Party, hire someone to do the actual jamming.

McGee and Virginia-based Republican consultant Allen Raymond have pleaded guilty in the case. The indictment says the jamming was McGee’s idea and Tobin put him in touch with Raymond to carrying it out. Raymond hired a telemarketing firm to make the computer-generated calls.

At the time, Tobin was a high ranking official of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, whose job was to elect Republicans to the Senate. The 2002 race between Republican John E. Sununu and Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, won by Sununu, was considered one of the closest in the country.

The committee was run by Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, now Senate majority leader.

In 2004, Tobin was regional chairman of Bush’s re-election campaign.