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Fox Searchlight has picked up the movie rights to Allen Raymond's book How To Rig An Election.
Shattered Glass helmer Billy Ray will write and direct the political drama.
The true-life story focuses on Raymond's rise and fall in the Republican party. Raymond was exposed when he attempted to jam phone lines at the Democratic Party headquarters to throw a New Hampshire Senate election in 2002.
Raymond's accomplice Jim Tobin, who had his initial guilty verdict overturned, has this week been indicted on new charges of making false statements to the FBI.
Ray told Variety: "This is the story of Raymond's rise to power alongside his friend in the party, Jim Tobin, and how their lives intersect in a way that forces Allen to choose between his ambition and his integrity.
"He makes the wrong choice at first, and by the time he makes the right one, his wife and kids are affected and his life is going up in flames."
Shattered Glass helmer Billy Ray will write and direct the political drama.
The true-life story focuses on Raymond's rise and fall in the Republican party. Raymond was exposed when he attempted to jam phone lines at the Democratic Party headquarters to throw a New Hampshire Senate election in 2002.
Raymond's accomplice Jim Tobin, who had his initial guilty verdict overturned, has this week been indicted on new charges of making false statements to the FBI.
Ray told Variety: "This is the story of Raymond's rise to power alongside his friend in the party, Jim Tobin, and how their lives intersect in a way that forces Allen to choose between his ambition and his integrity.
"He makes the wrong choice at first, and by the time he makes the right one, his wife and kids are affected and his life is going up in flames."
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