Ignoring the actual attempts by dozens (if not hundreds) of Texans, to thwart the lawful and peaceful transfer of power on January 6, 2021, Gov. Abbott's men -- and they are clearly mostly whyte men -- prosecuted a woman of color, seeking to send her back for five MORE years of jail. . . solely for incorrectly signing a PROVISIONAL ballot. A Democratic one, at that -- in a polling place where she was not officially yet registered. But now that's all finally over -- behind her; here's the story:
. . .A Texas appeals court has overturned a Fort Worth woman’s voter fraud conviction and five-year prison term for casting an illegal provisional ballot.
Crystal Mason did not know that being on probation for a previous felony conviction left her ineligible to vote in 2016, the Second District Court of Appeals in Fort Worth ruled on Thursday.
Appearing near tears at times, Mason said during a Friday news conference that it has been a long seven years since the voting charge. “I’ve been out for six years on an appeal bond, one foot in one foot out, not knowing if I was going back to prison,” Mason said.
“When I got the news. . . I was just overwhelmed in joy, it’s been a long journey,” Mason said. “I cried and hollered when I got the news. . . .”
Thomas Buser-Clancy, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, called the ruling “a victory for democracy.”
“Mrs. Mason never should have been prosecuted for what was at worst an innocent misunderstanding,” said Buser-Clancy. He noted that the ballot wasn’t counted because she was not a registered voter, and said the case should have ended there. . . .
Do better. Be better. Take it to heart Gov. Abbott. Out.
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