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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump

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This Woman Got 8 Years In Prison For Illegal Voting. Texas Is Showing No Mercy.
Sam Levine

news.yahoo.com

A Texas appeals court last week refused to overturn the conviction of a 39-year-old mother of four who has been sentenced to eight years in prison for illegal voting. She could also be deported.

There’s little dispute that Rosa Maria Ortega did in fact break the law. Ortega came to the United States from Mexico as a baby and was living in the U.S. as a legal permanent resident. Although it’s against the law for non-citizens to vote in Texas, Ortega registered to vote in 2002 as a Republican and then cast ballots multiple times over more than a decade. She tried to register again after moving in 2014, which is when state investigators noticed something was amiss. They arrested her in January 2016.

To Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), this is an open-and-shut case of voter fraud ? Ortega lied about being a citizen, voted multiple times and now is being punished.

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