Her neighbor, the election judge at her precinct polling location, knew she wasn’t eligible when he handed her the provisional ballot and accepted it from her, and he’s the one that called a friend of his in the Tarrant County Prosecutor’s office afterward to turn her in.
Sentenced to five years..White homie, votes knowingly illegaly and gets a 5k fine.. Even I think that is some racist shit. F ing Texas and the Criminal attorney general. Yet another person involved in a coup attempt, still doing whatever he wants. The system is broken you say? no, I say it is working exactly as designed by the rich.
Meanwhile on Reddit: “Republican official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally nine times, judge says”
I’m enjoying an edible but when I first saw the pic of the story I was like “why is Wesley Snipes dressed like a woman” am I crazy
Now let’s throw the republican who voted 9 times in there for 9 yrs
So that Republican that actually did commit 9 counts of election fraud in Georgia is getting at least 45 years then. Right? RIGHT?
Slap on the wrist incoming.
Even if she was guilty (which I’m glad she’s not), putting any citizen in jail for trying to vote for 5 years is totalitarian.
True American Hero. These are the people who should be in the news more often. Their stories offer so much more to the lives of the average person than any celebrity “success” tale. Congrats to Crystal.
This sentence was an abuse.
hope she receives millions in damages.
The Georgia GOP election official, Brian Pritchard, got treated so much better after voting illegally 9 times while on felony probation for forgery. Thank goodness MTG chimed in to remind us that the “The Republican Party is the party of election integrity,” – after years of openly denying the results of the 2020 election. It’s another GOP farce in which someone, as it happens, a black democrat, was truly damaged and got raked over the coals by malicious and mendacious magas in their quest to make America great again
Bout time. Everyone in TX knew this was a Ken Paxton Special.
I was a poll inspector for many years. I worked both of Obamas elections, OMG, and we were so busy. I worked in an election where1 only 70 people voted, in 13 hours at my polling place.
I think more people should be educated in how the voting process works, from checking the ballot box prior to the first ballot going in, the provisional ballots, those who live in another polling boundary, but want to vote close to work/mom/shopping. The rules regarding how the ballots are turned in at night (yes, in metal suitcases just like the ladies from GA were moving). That the ballot machine is NOT hooked up to the internet at the polling places, that in essences they read the ballots to make sure they have what is required, the dots filled in, not Xs, and can give a preliminary count, but they go all through it again. I personally would like IDs, but only because it makes my job easier in finding them in the sign in book. I can see how to spell their name and double-check if they are in the boundaries. People forget that they had to prove their address, name, and age when they first registered. If you change your address, you have to do it again. Anyone voting for the first time has to show a State Issued ID and 3 proofs of address, or they vote provisional. Then those who get the big bucks can hammer it out. Signatures are checked out at the office to match the signatures on their registration cards. If a ballot has to be pulled, they have bar codes to find the ballot.
There are so many steps, but the biggest thing is I had never met a volunteer, a worker, a professional that all they wanted was a nice clean election. We all took oaths also. I wonder how many of those running for office have ever taken the time to find out how those votes are handled.
I will say this, for the first time in 62 years, I believe that this election is the most important. I am really afraid it could be our last true election, not one like Russias, and other countries who are afraid of the people’s will.
It was about damn time this poor woman got some actual justice. I’m so sad she had to go through seven years of persecution for the same thing that some Republican dude in Georgia did for NINE years and he got off with a slap on the wrist.
Just when shit is hitting the fan for the comparison between this case and the numerous cases of willful intent to commit voter fraud by MAGA conservatives… Yeah, the judiciary is totally not influenced by political concerns. Really! They swear!
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Compare this to Barry Morphew, who voted on behalf of his missing wife in Colorado. He got no jail time. He is also the prime suspect in her death.
Wow this is good, it doesn’t make up for everything she has went through due to this injustice.
More details on this over at the ACLU website:
https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/crystal-mason-thought-she-had-right-vote-texas-sentenced-her-five-years-prison
Her neighbor, the election judge at her precinct polling location, knew she wasn’t eligible when he handed her the provisional ballot and accepted it from her, and he’s the one that called a friend of his in the Tarrant County Prosecutor’s office afterward to turn her in.
Sentenced to five years..White homie, votes knowingly illegaly and gets a 5k fine.. Even I think that is some racist shit. F ing Texas and the Criminal attorney general. Yet another person involved in a coup attempt, still doing whatever he wants. The system is broken you say? no, I say it is working exactly as designed by the rich.
Meanwhile on Reddit: “Republican official who claimed 2020 election was stolen voted illegally nine times, judge says”
Found [here.](https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/georgia-republican-vice-chair-election-fraud-illegal-vote-rcna145510)
Where is his prison sentence?
EDIT: Added prison!
Great news.
I’m enjoying an edible but when I first saw the pic of the story I was like “why is Wesley Snipes dressed like a woman” am I crazy
Now let’s throw the republican who voted 9 times in there for 9 yrs
So that Republican that actually did commit 9 counts of election fraud in Georgia is getting at least 45 years then. Right? RIGHT?
Slap on the wrist incoming.
Even if she was guilty (which I’m glad she’s not), putting any citizen in jail for trying to vote for 5 years is totalitarian.
True American Hero. These are the people who should be in the news more often. Their stories offer so much more to the lives of the average person than any celebrity “success” tale. Congrats to Crystal.
This sentence was an abuse.
hope she receives millions in damages.
The Georgia GOP election official, Brian Pritchard, got treated so much better after voting illegally 9 times while on felony probation for forgery. Thank goodness MTG chimed in to remind us that the “The Republican Party is the party of election integrity,” – after years of openly denying the results of the 2020 election. It’s another GOP farce in which someone, as it happens, a black democrat, was truly damaged and got raked over the coals by malicious and mendacious magas in their quest to make America great again
Bout time. Everyone in TX knew this was a Ken Paxton Special.
I was a poll inspector for many years. I worked both of Obamas elections, OMG, and we were so busy. I worked in an election where1 only 70 people voted, in 13 hours at my polling place.
I think more people should be educated in how the voting process works, from checking the ballot box prior to the first ballot going in, the provisional ballots, those who live in another polling boundary, but want to vote close to work/mom/shopping. The rules regarding how the ballots are turned in at night (yes, in metal suitcases just like the ladies from GA were moving). That the ballot machine is NOT hooked up to the internet at the polling places, that in essences they read the ballots to make sure they have what is required, the dots filled in, not Xs, and can give a preliminary count, but they go all through it again. I personally would like IDs, but only because it makes my job easier in finding them in the sign in book. I can see how to spell their name and double-check if they are in the boundaries. People forget that they had to prove their address, name, and age when they first registered. If you change your address, you have to do it again. Anyone voting for the first time has to show a State Issued ID and 3 proofs of address, or they vote provisional. Then those who get the big bucks can hammer it out. Signatures are checked out at the office to match the signatures on their registration cards. If a ballot has to be pulled, they have bar codes to find the ballot.
There are so many steps, but the biggest thing is I had never met a volunteer, a worker, a professional that all they wanted was a nice clean election. We all took oaths also. I wonder how many of those running for office have ever taken the time to find out how those votes are handled.
I will say this, for the first time in 62 years, I believe that this election is the most important. I am really afraid it could be our last true election, not one like Russias, and other countries who are afraid of the people’s will.
It was about damn time this poor woman got some actual justice. I’m so sad she had to go through seven years of persecution for the same thing that some Republican dude in Georgia did for NINE years and he got off with a slap on the wrist.
Just when shit is hitting the fan for the comparison between this case and the numerous cases of willful intent to commit voter fraud by MAGA conservatives… Yeah, the judiciary is totally not influenced by political concerns. Really! They swear!