Justice ticks slow on these voter fraud case. Slowly but surely we’re starting to get some results. In Tennessee the Black Lives Founder, Pamela Moses, was just hit with a 6 year sentence in her voter fraud case.
NYP provided a few details:
The founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis has been sentenced to prison for six years for illegally registering to vote in Tennessee, prosecutors said.
Pamela Moses, the 44-year-old activist, was ordered to spend six years and one day behind bars Monday for registering to vote despite felony convictions in 2015 that made her ineligible to do so, Shelby County District Attorney General. Amy Weirich said.
In handing down the sentence, Judge Michael Ward accused her of deceiving the probation department to obtain the right to vote.
The kicker here is Moses first claimed that she thought she was allowed to vote since she was able to register. That’s a huge lie. We know because Moses was previously explained to her that her prior felony chargers prevented her from running for office:
When Moses attempted to run for Memphis mayor in 2019, election officials told her that she would not be allowed to appear on the ballot due to her felony. Moses was uncertain, so she approached a local judge and inquired into her eligibility. A local probation officer signed a document confirming that her probation had ended, but a representative for the corrections department emailed election officials a day later, stating there was an error on Moses’s certificate and that she was still serving probation, according to the Guardian.
Moses said she never actually voted but only registered unknowingly, faulting officials for failing to inform her about her ineligibility after beginning her probation, the Washington Examiner noted.
“I relied on the election commission because those are the people who were supposed to know what you know you’re supposed to do,” Moses told News Channel 3 in December of last year. “And I found out that they didn’t know.”
Now, after sentencing, Moses made a last-ditch effort to shift blame and claims that she was unjustly prosecuted because she is a person of color. Unfortunately for her, that hand has been overplayed and she will still face prison time.