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1. These traitors are being treated with kid gloves,
Sat Dec 25, 2021, 08:16 PM
Dec 2021

while black and brown defendants on a daily basis for far simpler crimes receive far harsher penalties.

A black woman in Texas mistakenly voted (once) and was sentenced to 5 years in prison:

https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/crystal-mason-thought-she-had-right-vote-texas
After being arrested, Crystal lost her job at Santander, an auto-finance company where she worked in quality assurance. Her son left his first year of college to be closer to home, losing his football scholarship. Her home currently faces foreclosure.

The more time that passes, the less the whole ordeal seems to make sense to Crystal. For one, Crystal did not even vote in the November election; she submitted a provisional ballot that was not counted. Moreover, the state’s claim that Crystal knew she was ineligible to vote was full of holes, resting on extremely speculative evidence. The state’s case rested on the account of two witnesses.

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