A former staffer in the ruling Conservative Party has been convicted of trying to prevent voters from marking their ballots during Canada’s 2011 federal election. Michael Sona faces a possible sentence of five years in prison and fine of $5,000.
The case involved automated calls to more than 67-hundred telephone numbers misinforming supporters of the Liberal Party that the polling stations where they were supposed to vote had been changed.
“Voter suppression is extremely serious,” wrote the presiding judge.
Sona is the only person to have been charged in what has come to be called the robocalls scandal.
See the law governing Canadian elections.
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