(NEWSnet/AP) — New Hampshire attorney general's office is investigating reports of an apparent robocall that used artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden's voice and discourage voters from going to the polls in Tuesday's primary election.

Attorney General John Formella said the recorded message, which was sent to multiple voters on Sunday, appears to be an illegal attempt to disrupt and suppress voting. He said voters should "disregard the contents of this message entirely.”

A recording of the call reviewed by The Associated Press generates a voice similar to Biden’s that includes his often-used phrase, “What a bunch of malarkey.” It then tells the listener to “save your vote for the November election.”

“Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans in their quest to elect Donald Trump again,” the voice says. “Your vote makes a difference in November, not this Tuesday.”

It is not true that voting in Tuesday's primary precludes voters from casting a ballot in November's general election. Biden's name will not appear on the New Hampshire primary ballot, but his allies are running a write-in campaign for him in the state.

Source of the calls is unknown, but to recipients it appears to comet  from the personal cell phone number of Kathy Sullivan, a former state Democratic Party chairperson who helps run Granite for America, a super-PAC supporting the Biden write-in campaign.

Sullivan said she alerted law enforcement and issued a complaint to the attorney general after multiple voters in the state reported receiving the call.

“This call links back to my personal cell phone number without my permission," she said. "It is outright election interference, and clearly an attempt to harass me and other New Hampshire voters who are planning to write-in Joe Biden on Tuesday.”

It was unclear how many people received the call but a spokesperson for Sullivan said she heard from at least a dozen people who received it.

The attorney general's office said anyone who has received the call should email the state Justice Department's election law unit.

Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, said the campaign is “actively discussing additional actions to take immediately.”

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