An IRS employee was suspended for 100 days for using his job at the agencyâs help line to try to convince callers to vote for President Obama, a government watchdog agency announced Thursday. The employee, whose name wasnât mentioned in the announcement from the Office of Special Counsel, admitted to using his job for political purposes and agreed to the settlement that involved a 100-day suspension. âOSCâs complaint alleged that, when fielding taxpayersâ questions on an IRS customer service help line, the employee repeatedly urged taxpayers to re-elect President Obama in 2012 by delivering a chant based on the spelling of the employeeâs last name,â the investigative office said. The judgment against the IRS employee, meanwhile, was the third instance where the tax agency has run afoul of the Hatch Act in recent months. The OSC announced in May that the Dallas office of the IRS had to be warned after complaints that it was âcommonplaceâ to have pro-Obama screensavers on computers, and to have campaign-style buttons and stickers at the office. And an IRS employee in Kentucky served a 14-day suspension for blasting Republicans in a telephone conversation with a taxpayer. Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...ctivities/#.U76xxENy5Ro.twitter#ixzz375LBw1FM Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter Not a smidgen!