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The owner of the company used to send thousands of misleading robocalls to voters in Guelph testified Tuesday that whoever set up an account said that he was referred by the Conservative party.

Matt Meier, head of Edmonton’s RackNine voice broadcasting service, said the caller who identified himself as Pierre Jones didn’t give anyone’s name in their brief phone call.

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Meier was testifying in the trial of Michael Sona, who is charged over misleading phone calls sent to more than 6,000 voters on election day in 2011 using RackNine’s system.

Meier didn’t recognize Jones’ voice, he told the court.

“It was a male voice,” Meier testified. “It seemed like a young one. That’s the best I can do.”

“He just said the Conservative Party.”

At the time, the company took on new clients only by word of mouth and didn’t even advertise its voice broadcasting service with a website, Meier said.

Soon after the call, Meier sent Jones an email with a user name, password and a link to log onto the company’s service.