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"The Republicans already know they can’t win in November playing by the rules. Not even with the twisted mathematical formula that is the Electoral College. They have no policies, their leading candidate is a convicted rapist and con man facing 88 criminal charges and four court cases - one of them coming up in a matter of weeks - who is quite clearly losing his faculties."
"Furthermore, the Republican assault on abortion rights is not only massively unpopular across the country but it has galvanized the Democratic opposition in a way not seen in American politics since…I dunno. Long damned time.
Which leaves them with violence and intimidation as two of the biggest weapons in their arsenal to win in November by any means necessary."
A #Texas appeals court reversed the conviction of #CrystalMason, a Black woman, who had been sentenced to 5 yrs in prison on a charge of illegally voting in 2016, acquitting her in a case that #CivilRights attys cast as part of a broader fight for #VotingRights.
Mason voted w/a provisional ballot in 2016 but did not know she was ineligible to do so. The ballot WAS NOT COUNTED, but she was convicted in 2018.
#Texas 2nd Court of Appeals Judge Wade Birdwell ruled that there was not enough evidence to show #CrystalMason had known she was ineligible to vote.
The case had been seen as an example of a #GOP-led crackdown on alleged [BS] voter fraud in TX, & Mason’s attys framed it as an attempt at intimidating other voters, particularly people of color & those returning from prison, by making an example of Mason. #law#ElectionLaw#VoterIntimidation#VoteSuppression#BlackVotesMatter#democracy#VoteBlue
#CrystalMason, a fmr tax preparer, had served a prison sentence for fed tax fraud after pleading guilty to inflating her clients’ tax returns in 2012 & was on supervised release in 2016.
She didn’t know that made her ineligible to vote when she cast a provisional ballot at her polling place in #Texas. She went to vote w/her family & was told by a poll worker that she wasn’t on the rolls but could fill out a provisional ballot. #law#GOP#VoterIntimidation#BlackVotesMatter#democracy#VoteBlue
She had no idea she would soon be indicted on a charge of illegal voting. She later said that she would not have jeopardized her freedom by submitting a ballot & would have left the polling place if she’d known she wasn’t allowed to vote. #Election workers checking provisional ballots — as is routine — later determined Mason was ineligible, so her ballot was never counted.
#Police in Plymouth Township, #Michigan are investigating whether a lighting system that was set up by a mystery person to flash when someone approached a #ballot#DropBox was an attempt to #intimidate#voters.