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orleans

(34,068 posts) Thu May 13, 2021, 02:03 AM May 2021

i just saw this (from may 3) --oops--it's on twitter -- a tweet alert for anti twitter folks

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Bruce Bartman, white guy in PA who illegally voted for Trump on behalf of his dead mother, gets 5 years probation

Crystal Mason, black woman in TX who voted on supervised release when she didn't know she was ineligible, gets 5 years in prison

Two justice systems in America

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i just saw this (from may 3) --oops--it's on twitter -- a tweet alert for anti twitter folks (Original Post) orleans May 2021 OP

More like 51 'justice' systems. elleng May 2021 #1

And let me guess : Bartman's "mom's" vote was allowed to stand? peppertree May 2021 #2

from a reply on the tweet orleans May 2021 #3

elleng

(131,028 posts)

1. More like 51 'justice' systems.

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu May 13, 2021, 02:06 AM

May 2021

peppertree

(21,648 posts)

2. And let me guess : Bartman's "mom's" vote was allowed to stand?

Reply to orleans (Original post)

Thu May 13, 2021, 02:22 AM

May 2021

Mason's vote was certainly annulled.

orleans

(34,068 posts)

3. from a reply on the tweet

Reply to peppertree (Reply #2)

Thu May 13, 2021, 02:41 AM

May 2021

She even voted provisionally because she was trying to do the right thing, and her vote was not counted. This is a clear intimidation tactic attempting to further disenfranchise people as part of systemic racism.

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