Brendel: Just to really drive this home, the Republican vice chairman talk show host who got a fine voted NINE TIMES and the lady who got five years was like hey can I vote and an election worker was like idk here’s a provisional ballot, it’ll get counted if you’re ok

It’s one big club and most of us are not invited

A $5,000 fine for something other people get prison time for. Funny how that works out.

Georgia judge rules that Republican Brian K. Pritchard voted illegallywww.ajc.com A judge ruled that Georgia Republican Party Vice Chairman Brian K. Pritchard voted illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence for check forgery.

Just to really drive this home, the Republican vice chairman talk show host who got a fine voted NINE TIMES and the lady who got five years was like hey can I vote and an election worker was like idk here’s a provisional ballot, it’ll get counted if you’re ok

Georgia, man

Also, fucking Texas.

Reconstruction ended 150 years too soon.

also he was still on probation in 2008 from a three-year probation sentence handed down in 1996, because he kept violating probation I don't want to be carceral but it feels like when a black person gets their probation revoked, they go to jail www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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relatively good news for Crystal Mason! though it also makes the point--*she* got sent to prison just for getting arrested while on probation, and had to fight a bullshit case for six years bsky.app/profile/tani...

Extraordinarily good news: Crystal Mason, the Texas woman who was sentenced to five years in prison in Texas for voting while on probation, was acquitted today!

Crystal Mason: Texas woman sentenced to five years over voting error acquittedwww.theguardian.com Appeals court rules Mason, now 49, did not know she was ineligible when she voted in 2016 and throws out conviction

She went to prison for "inflating returns for her clients as a tax preparer" which makes me wonder how her clients' total dollar fraud compares to, say, a serial fraudster ex-president's.

Is that maybe, maybe because she had a fiduciary responsibility? I actually didn’t know that, only about the bs not even fraud since she was honest and they didn’t count her vote?

Pretty sure Florida law prohibits noting that the Republican (who got a fine & slap on the wrist) was a white man in Georgia, & Crystal Mason (who got 5 years in prison) was a black woman in Texas. Thank goodness the Roberts Court told us systemic racism no longer exists!

This thing "provisional ballot" what does "provisional" mean? It's a vote if it's a vote? Who decides that? Why is it the voter's fault if someone else decides it's not a vote? Why does "here is my vote if it can be counted" not work that way?

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