DA wont prosecute NC woman who followed moms dying wish and cast illegal vote for Trump

[bathroommonkey76]

A state prosecutor said he will not bring voter-fraud charges against a Catawba County woman who said she cast an illegal vote for Donald Trump last year to fulfill her mother’s dying wish.

District Attorney David Learner, chief prosecutor for Catawba, Burke and Caldwell counties, announced his decision Wednesday not to pursue the case, which had been referred to him by the State Board of Elections.

Learner, a Republican, withheld the name of the voter but said she had cast the improper vote for Trump last November “out of sheer ignorance” of the law and while “grieving the loss of her mother.”

“This woman is 67 years old and has never run afoul of the law for anything more serious than a speeding ticket,” Learner said in a statement. “It is not in the public’s interest to charge her with this felony offense.”

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http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article146938034.html

[Doreen]

1. A Democrat would have been thrown in jail and fined if

they did that voting for Hillary. It's in MY/OUR interest to put this lady in jail because I can guarantee I/WE would end up there if I/we did that.

[Initech]

8. The GOP would be calling for the death penalty if we did that.

[Doreen]

11. More than likely.

[former9thward]

12. False.

It would not have happened.

[Solly Mack]

2. She didn't know it was illegal to impersonate her dead mother to cast a vote?

Seriously? What bullshit.

We all know had it been a vote for Clinton charges would be made.

[oasis]

3. How about community service? Pick up trash on the street or park.

Deplorable getting of the hook.

[geek tragedy]

4. mother doesn't sound like a woman worthy of such a tribute nt

[sinkingfeeling]

5. But the Hispanic woman who was a legal immigrant was given a 8 year sentence?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/us/illegal-voting-gets-texas-woman-8-years-in-prison-and-certain-deportation.html

[JCanete]

9. was hoping it was the same one...guess not. Yep, of course. Different states, but there are other

obvious differences too.

[flotsam]

6. SHEER ignorance of the law is no excuse EITHER!

Do your fucking job or resign.

[Mr. Ected]

7. Lock. Her. Up.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Is this the kind of voter fraud that Trump alluded to?

[JCanete]

10. ignorance of the law is no excuse, but lack of compassion has no place in our society.

Selective compassion on the other hand, is absolutely a problem, and I think there is some worth-while concern about why this person is being extended it while others are not.

[Mr. Ected]

13. Sorry, when it comes to the sanctity of the vote, I have very little tolerance for shenanigans

Compassion can be meted out in the sentencing phase.