CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A federal judge has reduced the sentence of a man whose testimony helped convict Republican consultant James Tobin in a plot to disrupt Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts on Election Day 2002.

The prison term for Allen Raymond of Maryland was reduced from five months to three months by Judge Joseph A. DiClerico Jr. last week.

Tobin, 45, of Bangor, Maine, was convicted in December of telephone harassment charges for his role in the phone-jamming plot against New Hampshire Democrats.

Raymond, president of Viginia-based GOP Marketplace LLC, told the jury that he talked to Tobin a couple of weeks before the election about a plan to disrupt Democrats’ phone lines offering rides to the polls on Nov. 5, 2002.

Raymond is to begin serving his sentence March 2.

Tobin, who faces up to five years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000, was originally scheduled to be sentenced on March 21. But that hearing has been delayed until May because of scheduling conflicts.

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Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangornews.com

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