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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA grandma helped her boyfriend register to vote. She was just sentenced to prison for it.
A 66-year-old woman from North Carolina was sentenced to two months in prison this week for encouraging her boyfriend to vote and helping him fill out his voter registration form, even though he was not eligible.
Denslo Allen Paige, a grandmother who works part time at Walmart and also does seasonal gigs as a poll worker, was sentenced to two months in federal prison and a $250 fine by Judge Louise Wood Flanagan after pleading guilty to aiding and abetting voting by a noncitizen. Had she gone to trial on those charges and lost, she faced a potential sentence of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
She had been caught in an aggressive push by U.S. Attorney Robert Higdon Jr. to focus on the prosecution of noncitizens for voting, rather than the ballot-tampering allegations in Bladen County, N.C. Republicans across the country, including President Trump, have sought to paint illegal voting as a widespread phenomenon that threatens the integrity of American elections.
Paige was arrested in August, on the same day as the man she had helped vote, Guadalupe Espinosa-Pena, a green-card holder originally from Mexico whom she is no longer romantically involved with. At the time, she told him he should vote if he wanted his voice to be heard," a news release from Higdons office said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-grandma-helped-her-boyfriend-register-to-vote-she-was-just-sentenced-to-prison-for-it/ar-BBTmIEl?li=BBnb7Kz
Old women like her are so dangerous.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)punishment fits the crime!
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)She registered a non-citizen to vote. Two months and $250 is hardly excessive.
Mosby
(16,304 posts)Drunk fucking drivers don't get two months in jail.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)dsc
(52,160 posts)we had two people here who voted twice (both voted their own and another person's ballot) and neither one (both Trump voters) got any time. This was also in NC
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)Oh and Im not saying there isnt selective enforcement at all. But that doesnt inherently mean that the cases that do get prosecuted are not legitimate.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,851 posts)She's a poll worker. Surely she knows who's eligible to register and vote and who is not.
Dumb.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)I immediately wanted to know how much the local GOP chapter paid her to do this.
Problem: prove that illegal voting exists
Solution: create an illegal voter and co-conspirator. Send to jail, pay handsomely after released from jail.
Where was Roger Stone when this happened?