Woman Who Received 5-Year Sentence in Voter Fraud Case Is Acquitted

[ad_1] In a case that has prompted outrage from voting-rights activists for years, a Texas appeals court reversed itself on Thursday and acquitted a woman who had been sentenced to five years in prison for illegally casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. The decision came two years after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s highest criminal court, ruled that the lower appeals court, the Second Court of Criminal Appeals, had misconstrued the illegal voting statute under which Crystal Mason was found guilty in 2018. Ms. Mason,…

Arizona Official threatened with death over election, man receives 2½ years in prison.

[ad_1] Arizona Official, Katie Hobbs, targeted for death threat, sees Ohio man sentenced to 2½ years in prison. The man, Joshua Russell, 46, of Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Arizona in August to one count of making an interstate threat, according to the Justice Department. He was indicted in December 2022 on charges that he had left several voice messages containing death threats with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office during the midterm election season, in which Ms. Katie Hobbs was elected governor. Ms. Katie Hobbs, a…