Mary Howard-Elley’s voter registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned. Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated.
If you read the article, though, she says she called in and said she couldn’t do jury duty because she was taking care of young children (which is a valid excuse in many states). The person on the other end of the phone probably checked the wrong box on a form.
Which happens, as mistakes do, but the law in Texas states particular remedies for that, and those laws were not followed.
It all turned out OK in the end, this lady got use vote back due to the diligence of the press. She will likely use it to continue to vote for policies that make it harder for others to vote (and stay registered to vote), unironically.
Why would you not believe her? Lying to get out of jury duty is generally a crime. Why would she lie when she had a valid excuse?
And even if you did not believe her, the whole point of the opposition to these voter laws is that citizens have an inherent right to vote that shouldn’t be taken away by the bureaucracy. And you can’t just waive your citizenship because you said you weren’t a citizen one time. Even if she tried to get out of jury duty by lying about her citizenship, that shouldn’t affect her eligibility to vote at all. (Depending on the severity of the crime and the state laws, she might become ineligible after being convicted, but that will take a while and it will likely never get that far.)
The sad irony of this is that her story highlights all the worst parts of these voter laws, yet she will still continue to support them, because she believes the lies regarding illegals voting.
The reason it did affect her ability to vote is because it’s Texas and their government has been trying to go after as many people as possible and so would rather take down a few of their own than allow even one vote to go “the wrong way”. These are not smart or good people we’re talking about.
The person on the other end of the phone probably checked the wrong box on a form.
Is this just your guess? Are you making random excuses for this asshole? Oh no, this trumper could never have lied to get out of jury duty and fucked her chance to vote, it MUST have been someone else’s fault. Jesus Christ. Stop making excuses for these lying idiots.
Look, we just how how much these folks fetishize citizenship status. They think the illegals are flooding in and eating their cats. Do you honestly think one would pose as a non-citizen just to get out of jury duty, particularly when they have a valid excuse anyway?
If you are going out of your way to find ill intent, look to the clerk at the other end of that phone line. Because it could have been a simple “tick the wrong box” mistake. Or, it could have been an overachiever who assumes that anyone who wants out of jury duty is probably one of those cat eaters. How many other people did s/he tick the “not a citizen” box for?
And regardless, when the lady presented the proper proof she still got stonewalled until the journalist got involved. I bet any other people who got this treatment didn’t have the white connections to get it resolved properly.
If you read the article, though, she says she called in and said she couldn’t do jury duty because she was taking care of young children (which is a valid excuse in many states). The person on the other end of the phone probably checked the wrong box on a form.
Why would you take her word for it and assume the clerk made a mistake?
For the same reason non batshit-crazy people realize that illegals are not voting in droves: lying to the court is a serious crime, just like lying to register to vote is a crime. Why would she lie when she had a perfectly valid excuse?
Someone whose logic results in voting for Trump is clearly going to make logical decisions in court. Yeah, that is more plausible than the person assuming there would be no way to verify their story.
What how is this not the headline? JFC, it’s sort of an important point that SHE was the one who questioned her own citizenship.
If you read the article, though, she says she called in and said she couldn’t do jury duty because she was taking care of young children (which is a valid excuse in many states). The person on the other end of the phone probably checked the wrong box on a form.
Which happens, as mistakes do, but the law in Texas states particular remedies for that, and those laws were not followed.
It all turned out OK in the end, this lady got use vote back due to the diligence of the press. She will likely use it to continue to vote for policies that make it harder for others to vote (and stay registered to vote), unironically.
It’s by her account that she had called in and that’s how she got flagged. I’m a bit disinclined to take her word for it.
Why would you not believe her? Lying to get out of jury duty is generally a crime. Why would she lie when she had a valid excuse?
And even if you did not believe her, the whole point of the opposition to these voter laws is that citizens have an inherent right to vote that shouldn’t be taken away by the bureaucracy. And you can’t just waive your citizenship because you said you weren’t a citizen one time. Even if she tried to get out of jury duty by lying about her citizenship, that shouldn’t affect her eligibility to vote at all. (Depending on the severity of the crime and the state laws, she might become ineligible after being convicted, but that will take a while and it will likely never get that far.)
The sad irony of this is that her story highlights all the worst parts of these voter laws, yet she will still continue to support them, because she believes the lies regarding illegals voting.
The reason it did affect her ability to vote is because it’s Texas and their government has been trying to go after as many people as possible and so would rather take down a few of their own than allow even one vote to go “the wrong way”. These are not smart or good people we’re talking about.
So she does have a motivation to lie now when she lied back then.
Nah, she still thinks that because she is white that it should’ve never happened.
Is this just your guess? Are you making random excuses for this asshole? Oh no, this trumper could never have lied to get out of jury duty and fucked her chance to vote, it MUST have been someone else’s fault. Jesus Christ. Stop making excuses for these lying idiots.
Look, we just how how much these folks fetishize citizenship status. They think the illegals are flooding in and eating their cats. Do you honestly think one would pose as a non-citizen just to get out of jury duty, particularly when they have a valid excuse anyway?
If you are going out of your way to find ill intent, look to the clerk at the other end of that phone line. Because it could have been a simple “tick the wrong box” mistake. Or, it could have been an overachiever who assumes that anyone who wants out of jury duty is probably one of those cat eaters. How many other people did s/he tick the “not a citizen” box for?
And regardless, when the lady presented the proper proof she still got stonewalled until the journalist got involved. I bet any other people who got this treatment didn’t have the white connections to get it resolved properly.
Why would you take her word for it and assume the clerk made a mistake?
For the same reason non batshit-crazy people realize that illegals are not voting in droves: lying to the court is a serious crime, just like lying to register to vote is a crime. Why would she lie when she had a perfectly valid excuse?
Because she thinks her skin color will protect her.
Hahahahaha, good one.
Someone whose logic results in voting for Trump is clearly going to make logical decisions in court. Yeah, that is more plausible than the person assuming there would be no way to verify their story.