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Trial begins for lone junior Tory charged in robocall election scandal
Original Publication Date: June 1, 2014 3:13AM
Publication Updated: January 8, 2025 11:03PM
OTTAWA – The trial of the lone junior Conservative campaign worker charged in the robocall scandal is set to begin Monday.
Michael Sona, 25, is charged with wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent an elector from voting.
Sona was the communications director for the Conservative campaign in Guelph, Ont., during the 2011 election.
He is alleged to have orchestrated a scheme in which non-Conservative voters in Guelph received automated phone messages directing them to the wrong polling stations.
Sona has denied any involvement in the scam and maintains he’s been scapegoated by his former party.
If found guilty, he faces up to five years in prison and fines up to $5,000.
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