Maryland’s Office of the State Prosecutor charged the chief of staff for a state delegate Thursday with violating election laws over the summer through a robocall attempting to link a fellow delegate to support for transgender rights. Tyler Walch, who was a ...

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FREDERICK — The Maryland Republican Party says it sponsored a robocall targeting a Democratic candidate for the Frederick County Board of Aldermen. The Frederick News-Post reports that the calls programmed to reach 10,000 home the night before Tuesday’s election urged ...

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed a $1 million judgment against Universal Elections and its owner, Julius Henson, for violating federal law by sending recorded telephone messages to more than 112,000 Democrats in Baltimore city and Prince George’s County on Election Day 2010, saying they should “relax” because the Democrats had already “taken it back.”

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A Maryland appellate court has upheld the conviction of political consultant Julius Henson for his role in sending robocalls to voters in Prince George’s County and the city of Baltimore during the 2010 campaign to return former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to office.

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The same Maryland law that led to the convictions of two Republican campaign operatives involved in a 2010 Election Day robocall effort to suppress voter turnout could be used against individuals who urge people to vote, election law professor Larry ...

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Universal Elections and its owner, Julius Henson, to pay a total of $1 million to the state for violating federal law by sending recorded telephone messages to more than 112,000 Democrats in Baltimore city ...

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The jury in the election fraud case of political consultant Julius Henson deliberated for a full day on Thursday in Baltimore City Circuit Court before heading home without a verdict. The jury — seven women and five men, 10 of ...

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Jury deliberations began Wednesday in the election fraud case against political consultant Julius Henson, who is accused of helping orchestrate an automated phone campaign urging black Democrats to stay home during the 2010 general election in Maryland. Prosecutors closed their ...

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The judge presiding over the election-fraud trial of Julius Henson denied a motion for acquittal that would have ended the prosecution in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Henson’s lawyer, Edward Smith, made the motion after prosecutors rested their case in on ...

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In the third day of the trial of political consultant Julius Henson on charges of election fraud, his only employee reluctantly testified about the robocalls at the center of the case and her opinion that they were designed to be ...

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