- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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- politics@lemmy.world
NELSON COUNTY, Va. — A jury in this bright-red corner of rural Virginia found an avid Donald Trump fan not guilty of attempted illegal voting in a one-day trial Monday, accepting the man’s claim that he was only trying to test the election system for voter fraud when he asked to vote a second time in local elections last year.
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Meanwhile, because she’s black in Texas prosecutors are still trying to throw Crystal Mason in prison for an actual innocent mistake from all the way back in 2016 - https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/civil-rights-attorneys-urge-court-to-uphold-crystal-masons-acquittal-in-fraud-case/3684918/
As fucked as that situation is, it’s not the same situation.
It comes down to the fact that she did actually submit an illegal ballot. How that happened is where the shit is fucked up, but the base fact of a. Illegal ballot being submitted is there. In this case, he didn’t actually submit a second ballot, the poll workers didn’t give him one.
If he’s being charged for a crime that requires submitting two ballots, but he only ever submitted one, it’s pretty clear that he didn’t do the specific crime he’s accused of. Even if the context around it is extremely suspect, at best.
Was he charged with voter fraud or attempted voter fraud? For many crimes, attempting a crime is a separate crime that carries penalties even if not successful in the actual crime. Not sure if that is the case here.
It’s not very provisional then, is it.
Right, except the person in OP was charged with attempting.