The Crystal Mason case news out of Texas is good. To send anyone to jail for five years for a casting provisional ballot is unAmerican. The Texas high court will rehear the case.

1) The actual news about voting in 2016 was filled with many states [most or all former slave states] softening their policies about previously convicted people voting. I posted many of those articles. Mason's mom believed her daughter could vote, even though her 'parole' wasn't completed.

2) The ballot was provisional. When Mason voted, she didn't appear on the Texas voter roles. Therefore, she was issued a provisional ballot, requiring further verification.

3) This was a federal tax crime case. I didn't know that. Why Texas was throwing the book at her for a federal tax crime is astonishing. And Texas AG Ken Paxton is free as a should-be, wings-clipped bird.

If Texas persists in jailing this mother for 5 yrs, now that I know it's a federal tax crime, we will petition the justice department to DO SOMETHING!!

It's a newday morning in America. ~ Anne