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Texas woman with four children gets eight years in jail for voter fraud
NBC News ^ | 11-28-2018 | Jane Timm

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: election; invasion; rosamariaortega; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: tcrlaf

Title is wrong. She’s a mexican woman.


41 posted on 11/28/2018 9:16:41 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ( Trust The Trump)
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To: Yulee

How long before someone starts a GoFundMe site for this poor unstable woman and her 4 kids. She just didn’t understand US election laws.


42 posted on 11/28/2018 9:38:06 PM PST by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: IYAS9YAS
What the hell does having four kids have to do with her crime, or her sentence?

Why, everything ! Trump destroyed her family. /s

Four kids ? Where is Jose, or Pablo at ? Somebody made those kids with her, send them back to him.

43 posted on 11/28/2018 9:48:22 PM PST by csvset (illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: IYAS9YAS

#2. “Forget it IYAS9YAS. It’s NBC (Nothing But Crap)”.


44 posted on 11/28/2018 10:08:34 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: deport

In 2016, Obama told her to get out and vote. “ Ain’t nobody comin’ after you...”


45 posted on 11/28/2018 10:11:29 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: Phillyred
Illegals are the only people with children, according to the media

Not far off, they produce democrats while we kill ours.

46 posted on 11/29/2018 9:06:02 AM PST by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: tcrlaf
Ortega, a mother of four, reportedly thought she was able to vote because she was a permanent resident.
For sure Obama wasn’t disabusing her of that idea.

47 posted on 11/29/2018 2:02:58 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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