Crystal Mason thought she was performing her civic duty by filling out a provisional ballot in the 2016 election. She didn't know it would land her a five-year prison sentence, upending her family and ...

Crystal Mason speaks to reporters outside the Tarrant County criminal courthouse in downtown Fort Worth on March 29, 2024. The day before, a Tarrant County-based appeals court threw out her conviction ...

Crystal Mason, a Black woman in Texas who has drawn national headlines over the years after she was handed a five-year prison sentence for illegally casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 ...

A state appeals court overturned a Texas woman’s illegal voting conviction Thursday after she was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018. The acquittal from Texas’s 2nd Court of Appeals comes after ...

A Texas mother who was sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election said she is “overjoyed” after her conviction was reversed Thursday by the Texas Second Court of ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — A woman in Texas was sentenced to return to prison Thursday, because she voted in the 2016 election. She used her real name and identification, but her criminal past made voting a ...

Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a lower appeals court to review the illegal voting conviction for Crystal Mason, a Black woman who was controversially sentenced to five years in ...

A Texas mother sentenced to five years in prison for voting illegally in the 2016 election appealed her conviction Tuesday, saying she did not know her status as a felon on release made her ineligible ...

The G.O.P.’s war on voting has human casualties. Here’s one. By Jesse Wegman Mr. Wegman is a member of the editorial board. Whenever you hear Republican rants about widespread voter fraud supposedly ...

This Feb. 5, 2021, photo provided by the McClennan County Sheriff's Office in Waco, Texas, shows Nicholas Miller. Authorities say that Miller, the suspect in a fire that destroyed all but the outer ...

Lebanon was the first in the state; now Mason is considering a similar ban MASON, Ohio — Members of Mason City Council will be met by protesters from Planned Parenthood during Monday night's scheduled ...

March 29 (UPI) --A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned the illegal voting conviction of Crystal Mason, who was given a five-year prison sentence for casting a provisional ballot in the 2016 ...