Crystal Mason was given a one day trial and then sentenced to five years in prison for illegally casting a single vote in the 2016 presidential election. Ms. Mason was on a supervised release from prison to see her children graduate; and says she didn’t even realize that she had been thrown off the voter rolls due to her previous conviction for tax-fraud. In completely unrelated news, a 67-year-old “Trump supporter” who admitted to using her mother’s name to cast not one but two votes in North Carolina didn’t even get charges against her pursued. Sorry for the digression. On Monday, the New York Times reports that Crystal Mason’s appeal for a new trial was rejected by the same judge who sentenced her.
“Prison is a lot closer for her today,” Alison Grinter, a lawyer for the woman, Crystal Mason, 43, said on Tuesday, noting that her client would appeal the decision to a higher court.
Mason has been out of prison on bond, pending the appeal. In unrelated news, the white people who illegally vote are still doing all white. In other un-related news, Donald Trump has yet to release his taxes to the American public.