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That seems like a wholly inadequate sentence when you contrast it with the case of the woman in Texas who got 5 years for casting a provisional ballot in 2016 when she didn't know she wasn't eligible to vote. Wikipedia article outlining the details of her case and appeals..
Five years for not knowing you couldn't vote and casting a provisional ballot vs seven months for launching a nationwide internet campaign to disenfranchise people through deception? What a sad state of affairs.
She literally followed the rules. The entire purpose of a provisional ballot is that it's a placeholder for people of unknown status, and it is later approved or rejected based on investigation. That was straight up a racist prosecution meant to scare black folks away from voting.
I'm not OP, but I'm pretty sure that's the case in question. It was such a miscarriage of justice. Absolutely horrifying and shameful that it didn't get more coverage and outrage than it did.
It's just business as usual for America, most non violent prisoners of any country, ever.
Meanwhile, Tina Peters resisted arrest and tried to meddle with an election and she still has not been given the years and years she deserves to rot in prison.
Also vs walking around freely and continuing to campaign after trying to literally destroy the literal country via literal insurrection and literally selling literal government secrets and literally getting literal intelligence agents killed and then literally doxxing the literal judge who literally just approved a literal gag order but then getting to sit in court and act like you did nothing wrong and LITERALLY NEARLY HALF OF THIS LITERALLY BROKEN COUNTRY FILLED WITH LITERAL NAZIS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT YOU AND LITERALLY CALL THEMSELVES BOTH "LITERAL NAZIS" AND THE HEROES OF THIS STORY WHILE ALSO LITERALLY EQUATING THE LITERAL ANTI-FASCISTS TO METAPHORICAL NAZIS.
God damn I fucking hate this narrative...
Holy shit, the level of literal-ness in your post is completely obfuscating your point, if you even have one.
The stark reality is that it won't even take a lot of tax payer money to fix the US's education system. It's just in a shit state by design. You can't easily fool educated citizens. It's awful by design and thanks to years of budget cuts, further inflating the war machine we call the United States of America.
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Yeah, but she was caught Voting While Blah, obviously she had to pay by going to prison for 5 years.
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