The Brief
- The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the acquittal of Crystal Mason, who faced five years in prison for casting a 2016 provisional ballot while on probation.
- The state’s highest court ruled 5-4 in Mason’s favor, agreeing with lower courts that she did not knowingly break the law when submitting her vote.
- Despite the ruling ending an eight-year legal battle, Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells vowed to continue prosecuting future illegal voting allegations.
FORT WORTH, Texas – The woman who was convicted of casting an illegal vote in 2016 is speaking out after her acquittal was upheld by the state’s highest appeals court.
Tarrant County Illegal Voting Case
The backstory:
Crystal Mason’s illegal voting case became the focus of election fraud in Texas.
In 2016, she was on probation and not legally allowed to vote. But she claimed she didn’t know that at the time and no one at the Tarrant County Election Administration told her, even though her registration application noted it.…