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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.
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...
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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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[Mackey was prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act]
That is pretty cool.
It took SEVEN YEARS to sentence this guy. Maybe if he was sentenced before the next election took place there'd be some sort of minimal deterrent effect, but this is ridiculous.
I tell Republicans to make sure they vote at the polls and avoid vote by mail.
Good. Let's get more asshats who try to wreck our democracy in prison.
On the other hand, there are a bunch of STUPID Americans who believed him. That speaks volumes about your education system.
Our education system is pretty bad, especially as it pertains to explaining the way the government works. However, some people are indeed just stupid. You can educate them all you want and it doesn't sink in.
Should've been over a year, which would be a felony and impact his right to vote.
Remember the days when the internet was this wild west where you could do whatever you want be totally Anonymous are long gone. If you troll in the wrong way you are going to jail.
Oh no! But MAH FREEZED PEACH! PUBLIC TOWN SQUARE, etc...
To borrow the parlance of his contemporaries, what a cuck.