White Republican Convicted for Voting Illegally 9 Times

Black Democrats voted once while on probation - guess who was sentenced to 5 years and who was fined $5,000?

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When you get right down to it, being white in the United States has privileges. It’s like the old American Express slogan: Membership has its privileges. Membership in the white people’s club is definitely beneficial, especially when it comes to law enforcement. 

MAGidiots and other American racists won’t accept that there is something called “systemic racism.” To begin with, as was shown by YouTube reporter Adam Mockler, recently, many MAGidiots have no idea what “systemic” means. Nonetheless, through the mid-60s, there were actually rules/laws that openly discriminated against Black Americans. 

One often-discussed one was known as “redlining.” Federal banking officials circled certain neighborhoods in cities throughout the U.S. with red pens. They told local bankers that if loans were made to those communities, the federal government would not guarantee them. A white homeowner could get a low-interest loan to repair his house, like fixing a leaking roof, but a Black resident from the same town living in the Black neighborhood would be denied a loan. The only reason he was denied the loan was because his house was located in the Black neighborhood. We all know what happened when Black Americans tried moving into white neighborhoods. After decades of little or no home improvements, neighborhoods were broken down, so the foundation for ghettoes was laid.

While “redlining” is now outlawed, and the most blatant cases seem to be well-hidden from view, something similar happens when it comes to voting. Take the most recent example of our nation’s two justice systems.

A judge has found Georgia Republican Party official Brian Pritchard guilty of illegally voting nine times over several years. Pritchard has falsely asserted Democrats had stolen the 2020 election through fraud.

Administrative Law Judge Lisa Boggs wrote in her Wednesday decision that Pritchard, the Georgia GOP’s first vice chairman, violated state election laws by voting while on probation for forgery and other felonies, and that his explanations were neither “credible or convincing.”

Pritchard must pay a $5,000 fine and $375.14 in investigative costs incurred by the court. Boggs also ordered that Pritchard “be publicly reprimanded for his conduct” by the State Election Board, which sought the sanctions against him (A Georgia Republican Official).

Pay attention to the fine Pritchard had to pay: $5,375. He was down there in Georgia kicking up dust and heaving around branches like an enraged monkey about how voter fraud denied the orange menace his rightful victory. He voted nine times on probation for felony fraud for floating bad checks worth nearly $40,000. Pritchard’s defense: I didn’t know I couldn’t vote. Today, Pritchard is a Georgia Republican official and a conservative radio talk show host. 

Let’s look at what happened to a Black woman who voted once! While she was on probation. She didn’t know she couldn’t vote, and, as it turns out, neither did the election officials in her town. She went to them and explained her situation, and they informed her, “Yes, go ahead; you are cleared to vote.”

Cheryl Mason, a mother of six, was incarcerated for five years on federal conspiracy charges and then released on probation. While on probation, Ms. Mason registered to vote, clarifying whether it was okay, and then voted in 2016. In 2018, she was arrested and found guilty of “voter fraud.” She was sentenced to five years and placed on probation until her appeals were exhausted. Ms. Mason has spent the past six years fighting for innocence. 

Unlike Pritchard, whose nine votes were counted, Ms. Mason’s single vote was never counted. 

Ms. Mason, 49, of Fort Worth, had been charged with illegally voting in the 2016 general election by casting a provisional ballot while she was a felon on probation. That ballot was never officially counted, and Ms. Mason insisted that she did not know she was ineligible to vote and had acted on the advice of a poll worker who said she could cast the ballot (Woman Who Received 5-Year Sentence).

Just last week, Cheryl Mason was acquitted by a Texas appeals court. A heavy weight has been removed from the shoulders of an innocent Black woman. Nonetheless, she is Black in America, and she is still in many communities considered guilty just because of the color of her skin. 

Despite his Trump-like crime of cheating construction workers with fraudulent checks, Brian Pritchard went on to have an excellent career in Georgia politics. He will pay his laughable fine and return to being a well-respected member of the local red political machine.

Should the police in Texas stop Cheryl Mason for a broken taillight, she had better make sure her hands were in full view and that she remembered the words all Black Americans must know, like their name: “Yessir, no sir. Just on my way home, sir. I’m sorry, sir. I’ll do better next time, sir. Thank you, sir. God Bless, sir.”