Posted on 11/28/2018 6:19:50 PM PST by tcrlaf
A Texas appeals court upheld the conviction of green card holder Rosa Maria Ortega for voter fraud on Wednesday, cementing a sentence of eight years in jail and a likely deportation.
Ortega, a mother of four, reportedly thought she was able to vote because she was a permanent resident. She voted five times between 2004 and 2014 — once for the attorney general, Ken Paxton, who later prosecuted her, according to her attorney. She also reportedly served as a poll worker.
"She doesn't know. She's got this [green] card that says 'resident' on it, so she doesn’t mark that she's not a citizen,” her attorney told the Washington Post said. "She had no ulterior motive beyond what she thought, mistakenly, was her civic duty."
Prosecutors said that Ortega had correctly told authorities she was a resident alien on a driver's license form, while incorrectly checking the U.S. citizen box for the purpose of voting, undercutting her claims that it was an innocent mistake.
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Sad that this woman didn’t care about her children.
If someone stood in the doorway and prevented me from voting, or denied me registration because of which party I supported, it would be an outrage. When someone not qualified votes, or false votes are counted, my vote is cancelled out, and the result is the same. This is not a petty crime.
She voted for the Atty. General who prosecuted her per her attorney. You mean we’re supposed to believe that?
Her story is like an insect infestation, for every one that gets caught, there are a hundred others who aren’t...
No jail time. Just deportation with her 4 kids.
Oh, BS.
Ignorance of the Law is no excuse.
“Voting fraud should be a capital offense,”
Couldn’t agree more.
She’s up for parole in just one year when she will probably get out and be deported. A week later she will be living with her kids somewhere else in America without having to deal with the parole stuff which would be a real pain for her as a felon.
I’m sure her and her kids already have new ID’s in another state. Probably a sanctuary city.
Kick her idiot a** OUT! If she returns , shoot her. Throw her kids out.
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Lots of people vote for the DA or AG who ends up prosecuting them.
Suck a burrito, senorita!
“Texas woman”? If she is there illegally how can she be a “Taxas woman”?
I think she deserved 40 years.
“Texas woman” - NO. WRONG. FULL STOP.
GMTA
“Documents show that Ortega was brought to the United States as a baby and received
a green card when she was a child, which does not mean she’s a United States citizen.”
SO...... what has she been doing all this time ?
What the hell does having four kids have to do with her crime, or her sentence?
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In the Lib mindset this is separating parents from children. Funny how it happens all the time when an American citizen, parent commits a crime and is incarcerated. But it is horrible, when an illegal or green card holder is sentenced.
How do they know that she voted for Paxton? Are we supposed to take her word for it?
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