Crystal Mason, a black woman, got 5 years in a Texas prison for casting a provisional ballot that wasn’t counted because a pollworker told her she could.
I’ve posted about numerous cases of deliberate voting fraud committed by white Trump supporters, and none of them got jail time.
What’s wrong with that picture?
In another such case, in neighboring Arizona, Tracey Kay McKee (photo, left) voted her dead mother’s ballot in addition to her own. But the judge “rejected a prosecutor’s request that she serve at least 30 days in jail because she lied to investigators and demanded that they hold those committing voter fraud accountable.” Instead, she got probation, fines, and community service.
McKee and her late mother were both registered Republicans. ABC News says “Assistant Attorney General Todd Lawson played a tape of McKee being interviewed by an investigator with his office where she said there was rampant voter fraud and denied that she had signed and returned her mother’s ballot,” which was a lie.
McKee also ranted to the investigator that “voter fraud is going to be prevalent as long as there’s mail-in voting, for sure. I mean, there’s no way to ensure a fair election. And I don’t believe that this was a fair election. I do believe there was a lot of voter fraud.”
When her turn came to be held accountable, her lawyer “pointed to dozens of cases of voter fraud prosecuted in Arizona over the past decade, many for similar violations of voting someone else’s ballot, and said no one got jail time in those cases. He said agreeing with Lawson that McKee should do 30 days jail time would raise constitutional issues of fairness.”
Now what about Crystal Mason?