Posted on 03/31/2018 10:15:47 PM PDT by BBell
If she knew it was going to land her back in prison, Crystal Mason said she would have never cast a vote in the 2016 presidential election.
The 43-year-old former tax preparer hadn't even planned on voting until her mother encouraged her to do it. She had only recently been released from federal prison for a 2012 tax fraud conviction, in which she pleaded guilty to inflating returns for her clients, her attorney, J. Warren St. John, told The Washington Post.
She was still on community supervision at the time of the election - but no one, including her probation officer, St. John said, ever told her that being a felon on supervision meant she couldn't vote under Texas law.
Now, she's going back to prison for five years for it.
Mason was indicted on a charge of illegal voting in Tarrant County, Texas, last year and found guilty by a state district judge on Thursday, despite her protestations that she simply was not aware that she was barred from casting a ballot and never would have done it had she known.
As she told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at the time she was indicted: "You think I would jeopardize my freedom? You honestly think I would ever want to leave my babies again? That was the hardest thing in my life to deal with. Who would - as a mother, as a provider - leave their kids over voting?"
The case is yet another illustration of Texas's zealous crackdown on voter fraud, a problem that state GOP leaders have described as "rampant" in the past but for which they have yet to provide hard proof, save for isolated cases such as Mason's.
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P.S. :what were you in for?
CC
Well, with all of the cries to “lock her up” during the campaign, at least somebody finally got locked up.
Meanwhile the Klintoon/Obama mafia are still running the government.
Trump is going to have a MAJOR problem on his hands if someone isn’t brought down soon.
Not true. First off, her original sentence was five years, of which she served just over three in prison. So there's no 5 years left on her original sentence. Second, the original conviction was federal, while this conviction is on state charges in a state court and she's going to state prison.
I would say anyone who votes for the democrat communists are not really “mentally capable”.
nothing - only been arrested once about 35 years ago for not paying a traffic ticket. Was out before the cops even finished writing up their paperwork, said hello to them on my way out.
Your comment is telling because you obviously are one of those whod otherwise be behind the counter at MickyDs. You recognize the truth of my observation.
I know la fair amount of Judges, cops, DAs, and courthouse lawyers socially.
I search before I post and I did not find anything. It happens.
I know la fair amount of Judges, cops, DAs, and courthouse lawyers socially.
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Me, too. Except I do, for real. You comments make you seem stupid.
What do you do for a living?
That guy is a famous FR cop hater who claims that he is great friends with a bunch of corrupt/lazy/stupid Judges, cops, DAs, and courthouse lawyers which either makes him a complicit self-hater, or a liar. Waste of time internet blowhard.
Noted. He’d have a conniption if he read my homepage.
CC
what do you do for a living?
I am in the productive economy and typically pay more taxes in a year than you do in a lifetime.
LOL. You never fail. Best of luck.
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