She wasn't doing something white, that was her problem.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1841497.html
Seriously, she voted out of ignorance and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Another guy used his dead mothers name to fraudulently vote, which is obviously not legal or right, and got 5 years...of probation. State laws come into play, but that the laws in each state may be so different in terms of penalties is itself also a problem.
Also, forever fuck Kris Kobach.
I'm not optimistic about this helping honestly at least much. These people's IQ's are so low they argue the science against FDA authorized vaccines, in favor of either quackery or being so stupid they just think they're young and therefore their immune system will just prevent them from harm. Maybe good for the immunocompromised, but I also don't feel like they are very large portion of the population so won't make too big a dent.
Regardless of the technical term, I think we both agree that "misreading a deadline" shouldn't be five years in jail worthy. At least if you run a red light, you might hit and kill someone. Voting two months before you're allowed might be prohibited by law, but the only other person you're affecting is the election worker who has to dig out and remove your ballot.
I wouldn't agree it's worth a $50 fine.
It shouldn't be a legal infraction at any level.
If you're misrepresenting your identity at the polling station, that's fraud, prosecute that. Casting a ballot that shouldn't be counted should not be a crime, it should just be a normal administrative procedure for the poll workers.
Since they can show that objectively there are no shared ingredients between the two, then yeah, they could/should face sanctions and fines. And you're right, ignorance isn't a defense under the law in most cases, this being one of them. If they claimed something, then they should know it - the "I thought it was true because Faux News told me" no longer works - if it ever did.
I don't know how any of the scientific community has kept their sanity over the past 16 months. Legally speaking I've been teetering on intellectual insanity, and all my stuff is inherently subjective.
Edit: more definite wording in the first part - "[s]ince" replaced "[i]f".
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If y'all caught Trump's rally last weekend, he brought up the marine who was recorded pulling a baby over the wall at the Kabul airport. The guy teared up and told the sad story of his experience.
Or he made it up. Probably the latter.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1930744.html
That's the official line from the Marines. Clark was in that unit on the wall, but was apparently not actually one of the soldiers grabbing babies and pulling them over.Regarding the viral photo that began circulating around August 20, 2021, the marine identified in that particular image was not LCpl Clark
Oh, and also Clark is under investigation by the marines for speaking at a partisan political gathering, something active duty troops are not supposed to do.
That part I didn't misremember; Edge posted the link above:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1841497.html
And yes, it IS a fucking tragedy, but this is Texas we're talking about.
Actually what happened was she signed a provisional ballot affidavit stating she had not been convicted of a felony and they used that as basis to convict her. But she also was guided to do such by the election worker. 5 years for such bullshit is unacceptable. The real crime she committed was being black and not voting Trump. If she didn't commit either of those, they wouldn't have even charged.
As pointed out earlier, the lawyers who filed that did a "WHOOPS my bad!" and tried to yank it back. Maybe. But yes, two chemicals that sound the same doesn't mean shit. Ferric oxide and ferrous oxide might only be a few letters off, but try making thermite with the wrong one and your welding career ends with some colored smoke.
It's precisely why systematic racism in the U.S. is such a prevalent issue, and is generations still from going away, if ever. This situation should be the poster child for what is wrong with American. But I digress.
The real issue here with these new voter laws in TX, aside from literally keeping the browns and blacks from voting, is that now the police can arrest people for violating these SCOTUS upheld laws. Give someone water in a 100 degree 6+ hour voting line? Jail time. Accept water/food while in line? Jail time. Misunderstand the voting laws (that the people who write them don't understand) and vote incorrectly? Jail time.
This is how a state that was sliding Blue retreats into Red.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-grisham-book
I'm not necessarily saying I believe everything Grisham wrote but...man does a lot of it seem to check out and make perfect sense. Trump is a fucking child, literally.
Truly an important topic that required a face-to-face discussion between world leaders.The British prime minister was “one of the few European leaders Trump seemed to tolerate”, Grisham writes. “Conversations between those two, both pudgy white guys with crazy hair, redefined the word random.
“Johnson once told us over breakfast that Australia was ‘the most deadly country – spiders, snakes, crocodiles and kangaroos’. Then they discussed how powerful kangaroos were at considerable length.”
Also, this gem -
Trump really is just America's id with no superego to act as a filter.Grisham also writes that Trump told Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, that “India reminded him of California with all of the homelessness”.
And that's very telling - that the attorneys tried to withdraw it, because they probably knew sanctions were a possibility.
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Fucking imbeciles. Total fucking idiots. Holy shit.
And just as a comparison, when Obama had a free evening while traveling in Europe and meeting with European leaders, he had a casual dinner with scientific leaders from CERN and other physicists, to discuss the topic.
I wonder if someone like Obama could ever win the White House again.