Andrew Prescott, the deputy campaign manager for the Conservative candidate in Guelph, Ont., in 2011, is set to testify today against his former friend, Michael Sona, who is charged with making a robocall that directed some voters in the town to the wrong polling station.
Prescott may be the most important witness in the Crown's case: Prescott signed an immunity agreement to protect him from whatever testimony he provides.
Prescott handled IT issues for the campaign and was the campaign's main contact with RackNine, the Edmonton-based company behind the services used to make the automated calls.
Sona faces the single charge of wilfully preventing or endeavouring to prevent a voter from casting a ballot, in the so-called robocalls case related to automated calls made under the pseudonym Pierre Poutine the day of the May 2, 2011, federal election.
The other witnesses for the Crown include Sona's colleagues from that campaign and from Parliament Hill. The prosecutor said they're expected to say that Sona bragged about the misleading robocalls.
The witnesses expected Tuesday also include:
- Matt Meier, who owns RackNine.
- Chris Rougier, who was in charge of voter relations at the Conservative Party.
On Monday, a former friend of Sona said he overheard the Guelph Conservative campaign worker discussing voter suppression tactics. A party official said Sona asked him about making untraceable phone calls. Under cross-examination by Sona's lawyer, both men said Sona hadn't said anything to suggest he would use the tactics.
Sona has always said he had nothing to do with the calls, but faces up to five years in prison if convicted of the single charge.
Sona, 22 at the time of the campaign, was the director of communications for Burke.
Burke's campaign manager, Ken Morgan, moved to Kuwait in the months after the election and isn't expected to be back in Guelph to testify.
While hundreds of people outside Guelph also complained about misleading or harassing robocalls, a report by Elections Canada later found that there wasn't enough evidence to support the idea of a co-ordinated campaign to suppress the vote across the country.
The trial is to last eight days.
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