Md. jury: Ex-gov. supporter tried to restrain black vote
Paul Schurick was found guilty of all four counts he faced, together with conspiracy to violate state appointment laws and attempting to influence a voters decision whether to stab to the polls through the benefit from of fraud. Schurick had testified with the intention of he rejected campaign consultant Julius Hensons black voter suppression strategy but later on accepted an automated touchtone phone call sent on choice time to almost 110,000 free voters fashionable deeply black jurisdictions. The call told them to relax for the reason that Gov. Martin OMalley had already won. Schurick supposed it was doomed to gather together crossover Democrats, not keep colonize from departing to the polls. Prosecutors argued the calls to voters wearing Baltimore city and Prince Georges region, two jurisdictions with high spot percentages of black voters, were an effort by the Republican campaign to reduce the amount of black Democrats voting wearing violently equal Maryland.