Todd Krysiak, 39, a registered Republican, voted in 2016 in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. That’s a crime.
After years of investigation and prosecution, Krysiak was finally brought to justice. “He was given a 90-day suspended sentence and ordered to pay a $4,000 fine, plus a $960 penalty,” plus his right to vote in New Hampshire was terminated, Raw Story reported on Tuesday, April 26, 2022 (read story here).
Contrast that with Crystal Mason, who is black, female, and poor in Texas. In 2016, she didn’t know if she could vote because of a past conviction, so she asked a poll worker, who instructed her to cast a provisional ballot, which wasn’t counted. For that, Mason got 5 years in prison. (See article here.)
There are more articles on this blog about the extreme disparity between Mason’s treatment and that of white people who intentionally committed voting fraud. In most cases, like Krysiak, those offenders will serve no jail time at all. This isn’t accidental.
Texas is a Republican state. In Georgia, Republicans made it a crime to hand a water bottle or food to a voter waiting in line. (Those long lines don’t occur in white voting precincts; they’re engineered to occur in black precincts.) In various places, Republicans put up billboards like the one pictured below. The idea behind all of this is to frighten black people away from the polls. Republicans don’t want blacks to vote.
But they don’t get excited about white people committing voting fraud, as long as they vote twice for Republicans.
