Whoop-di-doo.
Imagine the vitriol and outrage and demands for a multi-year sentence if this guy had been, say, a former ACORN member who cast a single vote fraudulently. Instead, at this guys behest, 110K mostly-black voters got a call saying that they didn't need to go out and vote, the Democratic candidate had won, relax and "congratulations". And he gets 30 days at home, 500 hours of community service, and a one year suspended sentence.
The article does not note if this was a felony charge or a misdemeanor. It would be ironic (and wholly just) were it a felony charge and Maryland were one of the states that disenfranchises its former felons. #ddtb
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A political aide to Maryland's former Republican governor was sentenced to 30 days of home detention Thursday for an Election Day robocall conspiracy that prosecutors cast as an …