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http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061107/NEWS/611070314

From the mid-Hudson to the Midwest, the phones of voters were ringing off the hook this weekend with automated calls slamming the local Democrat running for Congress.

But woe unto any election-fatigued citizen who chose to sit through a football game or family dinner rather than the full political attack. The machine called back, again and again — as many as a half-dozen times — until the message played through, local voters say.

Such calls flooded phones and frustrated voters Saturday and Sunday in the 19th Congressional District. There, the incumbent, Rep. Sue Kelly, R-Katonah, is locked in a tight race against Democratic challenger John Hall.