African-American citizen sentenced for five years in the crime of voting

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Maybe... just don't be a felon? 🤔

Or better still, have a judge that understands that while ignorance of the law is no excuse, the fact that she was unaware of the provision and it was buried in fine print, at most warrants for getting probation.

Let's face facts. If this woman was a wealthy Suburban Trump cultist, she would have gotten probation at worse, or quite probably the charge reduced to a misdemeanor in plea negotiations

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But I was told voter fraud never, ever happens.

No you weren't, because no one has ever claimed that, either on this form or otherwise. What you have been trolled is that voter fraud, especially in person voter fraud like this, is extremely rare and almost never occurs. That is still true.

I'll take disingenuous straw man Arguments for 500, Alex.

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Maybe... just don't be a felon? 🤔

Or better still, have a judge that understands that while ignorance of the law is no excuse, the fact that she was unaware of the provision and it was buried in fine print, at most warrants for getting probation.

Let's face facts. If this woman was a wealthy Suburban Trump cultist, she would have gotten probation at worse, or quite probably the charge reduced to a misdemeanor in plea negotiations

Pretty much agree.
Under the circumstances of this specific case, 10 months or 5 years is excessive.
People have done things that are much worse, and get-off with smaller penalties.

But I was told voter fraud never, ever happens.

Voter fraud does happen and has been committed by people supporting Trump.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/07/07/iowa-woman-charged-voting-twice-trump-pleads-guilty/459718001/
https://www.bnd.com/news/local/article112583058.html

These were deliberate cases of fraud.

Nonsense! Everyone knows that voter fraud is committed on a regular basis by inner-city minorities. It's just not widely reported by the liberal media, but in fact recidivist voting is commonplace.

I snark, but this is literally a widely-held opinion among the various Republican committee members and officeholders I deal with that GOP meetings.