closer schreef op 5 februari 2022 10:43:
She was told she could vote again after felony convictions. Now she’s in prison for trying.
By Timothy Bella - Yesterday at 4:00 p.m. EST
Pamela Moses said she had taken all the steps to restore her voting rights in Tennessee.
Moses, a Black Lives Matter activist and former Democratic mayoral candidate in Memphis, had an extensive record of felony convictions, including a conviction for tampering with evidence that caused her to permanently lose her voting rights in the state. To restore rights that she says she didn’t know she had lost when she pleaded guilty, the corrections department and county election commission both signed off on Moses’s voter registration application in 2019 certifying that her probation had ended, granting her full voting privileges once again.
But there was a problem: The officials who signed off on Moses being eligible to vote acknowledged they made an error in saying her probation was over, meaning her voting rights had not been restored. So when the 44-year-old Black woman submitted the certificate as part of her voter registration, she was charged with trying to illegally register to vote.
After she was convicted of the voting error last November, Moses was sentenced this week to six years and one day in prison.
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www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02...Zie ook (gratis):
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