Texas Woman Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Voter Fraud Loses Bid for New Trial (June 2018)
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... A judge who sentenced a Texas woman to five years in prison for voting illegally because she was a felon on probation turned down on Monday the woman's bid for a new trial. ...

Ms. Mason, who was sentenced to 60 months in jail for tax fraud and was released in early 2016, has said that she didn't know that she wasn't allowed to vote in that year's presidential election. She cast a provisional ballot at her local church after being told that her name could not be found on the rolls. The ballot was never counted.

"Crystal's name was purged from the rolls when she went to prison, but Crystal did not know that," Ms. Grinter said in an interview on Tuesday. ...

Florida's effort to charge 20 people with voter fraud has hit some roadblocks (December 2022)
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... According to police body cam footage obtained by The Tampa Bay Times, many of the individuals arrested, including Oliver, were shocked to hear they were being charged with voter fraud. Most if not all had received a voter registration card from government officials ahead of the 2020 election.

Roger Weedon, who is representing two individuals charged for alleged voter fraud, says he thinks there is even a case to be made that the state entrapped these voters. He says the state could have created a system where local election officials and formerly incarcerated people could see if they're eligible to vote.

"The government shouldn't be able to prosecute cases in which they are almost co-conspirators by sending the registration cards and allowing them to vote," Weedon said.