CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – The head of New Hampshire’s Republican Party on Tuesday filed an election-law complaint against the former manager of Manchester Mayor Bob Baines’ unsuccessful re-election campaign.

Warren Henderson said Geoff Wetrosky signed an affidavit that he intended to live in New Hampshire after the Nov. 8 election, but left for South Dakota. Republican Alderman Frank Guinta upset Baines, a Democrat.

“A legitimate Manchester voter had his or her vote cancelled because Geoff Wetrosky illegally voted,” Henderson said in a news release.

Wetrosky had stayed at the Manchester home of Kathleen Sullivan, the state Democratic chairwoman. She reacted with anger.

“Warren Henderson is a jerk and please quote me on that,” she said. “What he’s doing is reprehensible. He’s trying to destroy the life of a young person who is active and interested in politics.”

She added that Wetrosky “had made it clear to everybody that after the election he planned to visit his family in South Dakota and stay with them through the holidays, see friends along the way, and come back and find an apartment in New Hampshire.”

Sullivan said she did not have a telephone number where Wetrosky could be reached.

Henderson’s complaint came as a federal jury in Concord deliberated the fate of a former national Republican Party official accused of orchestrating a phone jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats on Election Day 2002.

The government says James Tobin, who became President Bush’s New England campaign chairman last year, knew about the plan and that it couldn’t have happened without him. Tobin’s lawyers say a government witness, a consultant convicted in the plot, is lying.