- cross-posted to:
- texas
- cross-posted to:
- texas
A Texas appeals court has thrown out a five-year prison sentence for Crystal Mason, a Texas woman who was sentenced for trying to cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election that was rejected.
Mason, now 49, attempted to vote in Fort Worth in the 2016 even though she was ineligible because she was still on supervised release – which is like probation – for a tax felony. She has always maintained she had no idea she was ineligible and only tried to cast a ballot because her mother urged her to.
A judge convicted her in a 2018 trial that lasted just a few hours.
SILLY Woman! She should have just tried to Overthrow the United States Government! She would have gotten LESS time!
The best part is that an employee of the state told her she could vote, therefore the state told her she could vote, and they imprisoned her anyway.
It’s basically entrapment.
The first vice chairman of the Georgia Republican party, Brian Pritchard, just got convicted of deliberately voting illegally nine times, and got sentenced to…
(…wait for it…)
…a $5000 fine.
And those nine votes were still counted.