Former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) and first lady Kendal Ehrlich have been added to the state’s witness list in a trial expected to begin today in Baltimore. The case is the first of two to settle whether members of Ehrlich’s campaign team sought to suppress black voter turnout last fall to help Ehrlich at the polls.
One of Ehrlich’s most trusted aides and a campaign consultant areaccused of orchestrating tens of thousands of anonymous election-night robo-calls last year that state prosecutors charge were part of a larger attempt to suppress the black vote.
With the polls still open on Election Day 2010, a woman’s recorded voice told tens of thousands of blacks who picked up the phone to “relax” and not to worry about going to vote because Maryland Gov.Martin O’Malley (D), the Democratic incumbent, had already been “successful” in his rematch against Ehrlich.
Full Article: Former Md. Gov. Ehrlich could testify in black voter-suppression case – Maryland Politics – The Washington Post.