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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,937 posts)
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 09:47 PM Feb 2019

A 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 Higdon’s 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.


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A grandma helped her boyfriend register to vote. She was just sentenced to prison for it. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 OP
Poll worker so she knew the rules/laws whistler162 Feb 2019 #1
Agreed, she is a poll worker - what was she thinking doing this? Merlot Feb 2019 #5
The message as with most criminal laws: Don't do that. Sneederbunk Feb 2019 #2
MSN's headline is completely disingenuous. NYC Liberal Feb 2019 #3
seriously? Mosby Feb 2019 #4
Yes seriously. And drunk drivers should get more than that. NYC Liberal Feb 2019 #8
I would have less of a problem with that except dsc Feb 2019 #9
They should too. NYC Liberal Feb 2019 #10
Talk about poor judgement. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2019 #6
Being the extraordinarily suspicious type HeiressofBickworth Feb 2019 #7

NYC Liberal

(20,135 posts)
3. MSN's headline is completely disingenuous.
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 10:02 PM
Feb 2019

She registered a non-citizen to vote. Two months and $250 is hardly excessive.

dsc

(52,160 posts)
9. I would have less of a problem with that except
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 11:50 PM
Feb 2019

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)
10. They should too.
Sun Feb 10, 2019, 01:26 AM
Feb 2019

Oh and I’m not saying there isn’t selective enforcement at all. But that doesn’t inherently mean that the cases that do get prosecuted are not legitimate.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,851 posts)
6. Talk about poor judgement.
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 10:40 PM
Feb 2019

She's a poll worker. Surely she knows who's eligible to register and vote and who is not.

Dumb.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
7. Being the extraordinarily suspicious type
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 10:57 PM
Feb 2019

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?

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