I have a horrible story about a young woman sent to jail for voting while Hispanic.
Eight years in prison while white guys who stole entire elections in
North Carolina are getting away with it. We have the situation in the ninth district
of, I believe it's North Carolina, where the Republican is now say Mr. Harris is
now saying, "oh yeah, let's just have a new election", when it's fairly clear that he
knowingly hired somebody to commit a federal felony of election fraud.
Going around to people's homes mostly in black neighborhoods, asking
them for their ballots their absentee ballots and then filling them out voting
for Republicans, and submitting them, or if they were already filled out for
Democrats, destroying them. And so now you've got Harris saying, well yeah let's
just have a new election. At the same time down in Texas, a Texas appeals court
last week - this this is from Huffington Post - "A Texas appeals court last week
refused to overturn the conviction of a 39 year old mother of four, who had been
sentenced to eight years in prison for voting illegally. Her name is Rosa Maria Ortega.
She came to the United States as a baby. Her two siblings were both born
here in the United States. She is living in the United States as a legal
permanent resident. She thought that as a green card holder and as the
sister of two US citizens, that she could legally vote" She just
thought that was the case. She actually had voted, she's registered as a
Republican by the way. She had voted in several elections then she moved and
when she moved she tried to re-register and on the form it says, "are you a citizen?"
And she checked no, because she's not. And so they sent her back a note saying
sorry you can't vote and so she went to them and she said but I voted in the
past. And at that point Ken Paxton, the Attorney General for Texas, gets in the
act, and brings charges against her and they
have convicted her. And she is in prison right now. And she's serving an
eight-year sentence for voting. Voting while Hispanic apparently. And the
appeals court down in Texas said, no not going to overturn that she could just
rot for nine years. Or eight years, excuse me.
And this is emblematic of what happens to the the vast
majority of these so-called illegal voters or the phony
baloney vote fraud that the Republicans are constantly looking for.
Is, for example, in Bobby Higdon in North Carolina, he's a federal prosecutor, and
he has just gone on a tear against non citizen voting. The state came up with a
list they said that out of the 4.8 million people who voted in that state
in 2016, there were 41 that they thought were not citizens. Higdon went into a
full-blown tear on them. Charge 19 of them. They were foreign nationals
with illegally voting. One of them, a 72 year old Haitian immigrant and legal
permanent resident since 1976, thought he could vote cuz he had a green
card. He pleaded guilty was sentenced to 12 months probation a $25 fine.
Korean native presented her green card while attempting to vote not realizing it was
against the law. They arrested her for trying to vote with a green card. Judge
was aghast that a poll worker failed to intervene and tell her that she couldn't
vote and he find her only a hundred bucks. Another woman 66 was at two months
in prison and a 250 dollar fine for helping her Mexican citizen boyfriend
register to vote she didn't know it was illegal.
They are almost all mistakes and there's only a tiny number of them. But
this is what this guy is all about so my question is if you've got the the the
federal prosecutor in North Carolina is sending people trying to send people to
prison for voting illegally if you got to the state of Texas saying eight years
in prison for voting when you know you thought you could legally vote
mistakenly voting let's say then why is nobody going to jail in North Carolina
in the 9th district for what is obviously a an election fraud campaign
why is the Republican candidate not going to jail why is his campaign not
going to jail why is the guy who who who hired all these people to go
door-to-door and collect ballots you know they may have been ignorant of the
crime they committed but why isn't he going to jail?