A pair of right-wing provocateurs were sentenced to spend 500 hours registering voters after pleading guilty to telecommunications fraud in connection with robocalls made before the 2020 election.
that mail-in voting would put voters into a database that would later be used to collect outstanding debt, track down warrants or enforce mandatory vaccinations.
Burkman, of Arlington, Virginia, and Wohl, of Irvine, California, have been accused of trying to influence 85,000 voters in urban areas across the country with the robocalls, which contained misinformation about mail-in voting, in Ohio, Illinois, New York, California, Pennsylvania and other states. Prosecutors said more than 8,100 robocalls went to phone numbers of residents in Cleveland and East Cleveland alone.
Wohl and Burkman identified themselves on the calls and admitted under oath that they created them, but denied they did anything illegal, insisting the calls were exercise of free speech rights and not designed to intimidate, threaten or suppress voting.sought $2.7 million in penalties over robocalls allegedly aimed at suppressing the Black vote ahead of the 2020 election.
was announced this year. The Federal Communications Commission also proposed a $5.1 million fine against the conservative activists for their alleged actions.
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