Two men accused of deterring Black voters in Metro Detroit from voting by mail in the 2020 general election each received a year of probation Monday, concluding a case that wound its way through Michigan's court system for five years.

Conservative activists John Burkman, 59, and Jacob Wohl, 27, both of Virginia, were accused of financing a 2020 robocall that claimed recipients who voted by mail would have their information entered into a database that could track people with warrants, collect on credit card debt or find people for mandatory vaccines. They allegedly created and disseminated as many as 12,000 robocalls in 2020 to residents of Metro Detroit to discourage mail-in voting.

In a statement to the court, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel called the right to vote one "that mus

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