I so hope she wins. We need to make an example of making an example.
There are so many things wrong with this case and verdict that it screams for more attention.
But can a lawyer here explain if this request has any hope? Despite the compelling arguments presented, to me it comes across as asking, “Can we please have another chance because we misjudged our last trial and want to give it another shot?”
So her neighbor as an election official allowed her “to vote” and then went to the DA? Shouldn’t he be charged also?
Inadvertently vote illegally and get five years in jail. Rig your own election and get five years probation.
Same county (Tarrant), same state (Texas).
One of these people is a black woman, the other a white man. Can you guess who got which sentence?
I knew you could.
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article209641279.html
Where is Kobach when you really need him?
It would make more sense to give people five year sentences for not trying to vote.
Disqualifying her provisional ballot should have been the end of the story.
If you must know, he’s busily planning his appeal after being found in contempt of court by federal judge.
Or trying to figure out how to use Word.
Wherever he’s not actually really needed…
Texas must have a giant prison budget. They throw people in prison at the drop of a hat.
There’s actually a place where he is (needed)? Besides hell.
Feature, not a bug.
We need to keep this case in the news until this wrong is righted. If she does not get a new trial or an appeal, we need to help her out. So wrong on so many levels.
Even this article merges what she did with voter fraud. There was nothing fraudulent in what she did. She had no intention to deceive. Obviously no one told her that part of the conditions of her release was no voting until all supervision is over. Had they you can bet they’d have been in the Court to say they did. It would be a good idea if we all stopped going with GOP flow.
So if it’s 5 years for mistakenly perhaps voting illegally then the universe is not old enough to contain the time required to sentence what these clowns have done.
Smells like a set up by her neighbor (with neighbors like that…). And can we, for once, have a debate on why States should be allowed to invalidate voting rights for somebody just because of having any kind of criminal record and, especially, when they are not incarcerated? I know that States are allowed to set their own rules but disenfranchising large swaths of the public due to having felonies, prison terms, or being on probation seems like it should be illegal/unconstitutional. I don’t really even believe people in jail/prison should legally be denied the right to vote.
Texas spends almost $20,000 per year per prisoner for their jails. So, $100,000 for a rejected provisional ballot. That’s how much this bigotry is costing the public. The crime isn’t only between the offender and the victim, we all bear the burden for others bigotry.
Texas has Provisional Voting for people who want to vote but cannot be found on the voting rolls. We are trained that if we cannot find a voter on the rolls we give them a provisional ballot, they vote it, and then the committee at the County election office determines if the ballot can be accepted and count for a vote.This is what the county administrators tell those of us in the election precincts to do.
The county committee has the last word on whether she is eligible to vote.
The judge and prosecutor in her trial are both Republicans and probably do not understand that procedure - or if they do, this was purely an attack on minority voting rights. There are no valid reasons she should have been convicted of voter fraud. Her conviction is the fraud, not her attempt to vote.
This travesty of justice will also probably cause people who should file provisional votes to refuse them and instead simply not vote.
This so sad. She has a go fund me account set up to help with her legal fees if anyone is interested. Praying for her. https://www.gofundme.com/2p6d338