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.
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.
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.