OTTAWA (Reuters) - A former official of Canada's governing Conservative Party was found guilty on Thursday of orchestrating an illegal robocall campaign during the last election, in the first case of its kind in Canada.
A judge in Guelph, Ontario, said the official, Michael Sona, was at least partly responsible for around 7,000 automated phone calls made on election day in May 2011. The calls falsely told voters that the locations of their polling stations had changed.
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