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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJudge in Memphis sentenced a woman to six years in prison for trying to register to vote.
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On Monday, a judge in Memphis sentenced a woman to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. He said she had tricked the probation office into signing a form indicating she was eligible. You can watch some of the sentencing hearing here:
wreg.com
Memphis woman faces sentencing in voter fraud case
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Pam Moses took the stand and testified in her own sentencing hearing centered around an illegal voting case on Wednesday.She faces 4 to 8 years after being convicted of presen
9:21 AM · Feb 3, 2022
The case is enormously complicated. Tennessee has what are likely the most confusing rules around felon disenfranchisement in the US. If you have a felony, your ability to vote depends on what you were convicted of and when. It's very confusing: https://sos.tn.gov/elections/guides/restoration-of-voting-rights
The woman in this case, Pamela Moses, pled guilty to a felony in 2015 that caused her to never be able to vote again. But no one ever told her. And election officials never took her off the voter rolls. Here's a 2020 letter where they acknowledged their error:
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9:27 AM · Feb 3, 2022
Sam Levine
@srl
On Monday, a judge in Memphis sentenced a woman to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. He said she had tricked the probation office into signing a form indicating she was eligible. You can watch some of the sentencing hearing here:
wreg.com
Memphis woman faces sentencing in voter fraud case
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Pam Moses took the stand and testified in her own sentencing hearing centered around an illegal voting case on Wednesday.She faces 4 to 8 years after being convicted of presen
9:21 AM · Feb 3, 2022
The case is enormously complicated. Tennessee has what are likely the most confusing rules around felon disenfranchisement in the US. If you have a felony, your ability to vote depends on what you were convicted of and when. It's very confusing: https://sos.tn.gov/elections/guides/restoration-of-voting-rights
The woman in this case, Pamela Moses, pled guilty to a felony in 2015 that caused her to never be able to vote again. But no one ever told her. And election officials never took her off the voter rolls. Here's a 2020 letter where they acknowledged their error:
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9:27 AM · Feb 3, 2022
https://wreg.com/news/local/memphis-woman-faces-sentencing-in-voter-fraud-case/
MEMPHIS, Tenn. Pam Moses took the stand and testified in her own sentencing hearing centered around an illegal voting case on Wednesday.
She faces 4 to 8 years after being convicted of presenting false documents restoring her voting rights when she is a convicted felon whose voting rights have been stripped forever.
I accept full responsibility for my actions. I have been held accountable. I been in jail since December 10th, Moses said.
Moses maintained she thought her voting rights had been restored.
I did not falsify anything. All I did was try to get my rights to vote back the way the people at the election commission told me and the way the clerk did, she said.
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Judge in Memphis sentenced a woman to six years in prison for trying to register to vote. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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ificandream
(9,357 posts)1. If she was rich and white, she'd have gotten a break ...
Sad but true.
Bettie
(16,083 posts)13. If she was rich and white
she'd be back on the voter rolls.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)2. Pam Moses NEEDS a GOOD attorney
With insurrectionists getting their filthy hands slapped with home confinements, after trying to overthrow our government. And then this happen to POC it just shows our nation is racists AF.
Nevilledog
(51,063 posts)3. Or how about the people who ACTUALLY committed voter fraud by voting twice.
Haven't heard about a single one of those even serving any time.
MagickMuffin
(15,933 posts)7. That too, but Pam Moses needs someone to represent her in this case
Apparently the BOE sent her docs saying she was eligible. So, she needs reinforcements as does the Tarrant county provisional voter who was also sentenced to a long term in prison.
And of course people of color will be treated with severe prison sentences, and white people will just get home detention. Locking up POC keeps them from EVER voting. It's a process and by design.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)4. Meanwhile Republicans who deliberately vote twice in the same election routinely get
sentenced to probation.
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)5. Put the fucking Judge in jail. nt
Solomon
(12,310 posts)6. FFS!
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)8. And how many years will the FAKE ELECTORS get?
You know, the ones who KNEW they were not the CHOSEN electors, signing fraudulent documents, but were on 'stand-by' for Donnie and the Gang.......
Xoan
(25,318 posts)9. Memphis judge
DLevine
(1,788 posts)10. Those eyes. Creepy as hell. nt
NutmegYankee
(16,199 posts)11. Could she have moved to another state and voted?
Other states allow felons to vote and u cant see a restriction in another state having an effect.
Nevilledog
(51,063 posts)12. Maddow segment
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What's the big difference between Pam Moses and all those other guys who actually cast illegal ballots? These guys got probation, in one case 3 days in jail. She got 6 years in prison for trying to register to vote after the probation department said it was ok.
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7:47 PM · Feb 3, 2022
Maddow Blog
@MaddowBlog
What's the big difference between Pam Moses and all those other guys who actually cast illegal ballots? These guys got probation, in one case 3 days in jail. She got 6 years in prison for trying to register to vote after the probation department said it was ok.
Watch on Twitter
7:47 PM · Feb 3, 2022