League of Women Voters of New Hampshire v. Kramer

Three days before the New Hampshire presidential primary, Steve Kramer paid to create a recorded message using artificial intelligence to mimic President Biden’s voice. Posing as President Biden, the messages falsely implied that voters could not vote in both the primary and general elections and urged voters to “save” their vote for November. Lingo Telecom and Life Corporation then distributed the message via robocalls to thousands of New Hampshire voters without disclosing the source of the calls. The calls “spoofed” a phone number associated with a former chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party and included her personal cell number in the message itself.

On March 14, 2024, the League of Women Voters of the United States (LWV-US), the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire (LWV-NH), and several individual New Hampshire voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire against Steve Kramer, Lingo Telecom, and Life Corporation.

The lawsuit argues that the robocalls violated federal and state laws that protect voters from intimidation, threats, coercion, and deception:

• the Voting Rights Act, which bans intimidating, threatening, or coercing, or attempting to intimidate, threaten or coerce, any person from voting;
• the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits the distribution of unwanted and deceptive robocalls;
• and provisions of New Hampshire state law, which prohibit the distribution of political messages via robocalls without disclosing the source of the calls or that deceive call recipients

LWV-NH, LWV-US, and the individual voters seek to stop the defendants from using robocalls and AI technology to intimidate, threaten, coerce, or deceive voters.

Free Speech For People are co-counsel on this lawsuit with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and local counsel Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, & Pachios, Chartered, LLP.

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