Or if a black woman (paroled for a non-violent crime) in Texas fills out a provisional ballot because the poll worker told her she should...she should get a three year sentence (yea that happened)
Her lawyers say if her sentence stands, it could discourage low-information voters from going to the polls at all.
www.texastribune.org
FORT WORTH — When Crystal Mason got out of federal prison, she said, she “got out running.”
By Nov. 8, 2016, when she’d been out for months but was still on supervised release, she was working full-time at Santander Bank in downtown Dallas and enrolled in night classes at Ogle Beauty School, trying, she said, to show her children that a “bump in the road doesn’t determine your future.”
On Election Day, there was yet another thing to do: After work, she drove through the rain to her polling place in the southern end of Tarrant County, expecting to vote for the first female president.
When she got there, she was surprised to learn that her name wasn’t on the roll. On the advice of a poll worker, she cast a provisional ballot instead. She didn’t make it to her night class.
A month later, she learned that her ballot had been rejected, and a few months after that, she was arrested. Because she was on supervised release, prosecutors argued, she had knowingly violated a law preventing felons from voting before completing their sentences.
You always play the ignorant fool.