Her Ballot Didn't Count. She Faces 5 Years in Prison for Casting It.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

On Election Day 2016, Crystal Mason went to vote after her mother insisted that she make her voice heard in the presidential election. When her name didn’t appear on official voting rolls at her polling place in Tarrant County, Texas, she filled out a provisional ballot, not thinking anything of it.

Mason’s ballot was never officially counted or tallied because she was ineligible to vote: She was on supervised release after serving five years for tax fraud. Nonetheless, that ballot has wrangled her into a lengthy appeals process after a state district court sentenced her to five years in prison for illegal voting, as she was a felon on probation when she cast her ballot.

Mason maintains that she didn’t know she was ineligible to vote.

“This is very overwhelming, waking up every day knowing that prison is on the line, trying to maintain a smile on your face in front of your kids, and you don’t know the outcome,” Mason said in a phone interview. “Your future is in someone else’s hands because of a simple error.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/her-ballot-didnt-count-she-142949302.html

[niyad]

1. Let's see. She casts a ballot that was not counted, when she did not know she was ineligible

to vote. She faces five years in prison. How many of the insurrectionists at the Capitol on 1/6, seeking to overturn our election, will never see a day in jail???

[niyad]

2. I didn't even have to check the picture.

[choie]

3. Five years for tax fraud

And trump and others of his ilk remain free.

[multigraincracker]

4. Conviction depends on your bank account balance and/or

your paint job.

[DVRacer]

5. Excuse me

I thought that was the whole point of a provisional ballot was to further check eligibility and count it if it was good destroy it if it wasn’t.