In the middle of the night, justice calls
It’s 1 a.m., and the phone rings. Who do you expect it to be?
For many Nevada residents, the voice on the other end of that middle-of-the-night call was retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
A glitch caused thousands of Nevadans’s phones to ring in the wee early hours with a robocall message from O’Connor urging them to vote for a measure that would create a merit system for selecting judges as opposed to judicial elections, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. O’Connor has been a vocal opponent of elected judicial systems.
The public relations company in charge of the phone campaign said the error was both human- and computer-based: instead of being programmed to dial homes at 1 p.m., the computer was set to dial residents at 1 a.m.
The next afternoon the residents got another phone call – this time apologizing for the late-night interruption. Still, the company in charge of the campaign was fired for the mishap.
[Hat tip: ABA Journal]
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