jimnyc
04-01-2018, 01:01 PM
And of course all I have read about this is just how racists it, and how white folks don't get prison time for this "mistake". and then there it came, the racist accusations and comparisons. Only all they did was point out the proof. If you're a convicted felon already, you will also get treated differently. But yet just another reason to cry racism. :rolleyes:
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Tweet Alleging Racism In Voter Fraud Sentencing Is Bogus
A Saturday tweet alleging racism in American voter fraud convictions received more than 17,000 retweets, but it doesn’t appear that racism had anything to do with the convictions in question.
https://i.imgur.com/W3313vE.png
The Hill reporter Reid Wilson laid out four examples of voter fraud convictions; three of the offenders were white and one was black. None of the three white defendants received sentences greater than three years of probation while the black defendant in Texas received a five-year prison sentence. Here’s why: The black defendant, 43-year-old Crystal Mason, is a convicted felon who was on probation when she committed the voter fraud, while the three white defendants had no criminal history.
Mason had been on supervised release following a 2011 fraud conviction when she and her ex-husband pleaded guilty to inflating their Internal Revenue Service tax returns. She claims she didn’t know that voting while on probation was illegal, but she received a harsh sentence for committing fraud while already on probation for another fraud conviction, according to USA Today.
Rest - http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/01/tweet-alleging-racism-in-voter-fraud-sentencing-is-bogus/
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Tweet Alleging Racism In Voter Fraud Sentencing Is Bogus
A Saturday tweet alleging racism in American voter fraud convictions received more than 17,000 retweets, but it doesn’t appear that racism had anything to do with the convictions in question.
https://i.imgur.com/W3313vE.png
The Hill reporter Reid Wilson laid out four examples of voter fraud convictions; three of the offenders were white and one was black. None of the three white defendants received sentences greater than three years of probation while the black defendant in Texas received a five-year prison sentence. Here’s why: The black defendant, 43-year-old Crystal Mason, is a convicted felon who was on probation when she committed the voter fraud, while the three white defendants had no criminal history.
Mason had been on supervised release following a 2011 fraud conviction when she and her ex-husband pleaded guilty to inflating their Internal Revenue Service tax returns. She claims she didn’t know that voting while on probation was illegal, but she received a harsh sentence for committing fraud while already on probation for another fraud conviction, according to USA Today.
Rest - http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/01/tweet-alleging-racism-in-voter-fraud-sentencing-is-bogus/