Texas Woman's Voter Fraud Conviction Overturned

A Texas appeals court overturned Crystal Mason's five-year prison sentence for voting illegally, ruling that the state's evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that she knew she was ineligible to vote due to a past felony conviction. Mason, who cast a provisional ballot in the 2016 presidential election with the help of a poll worker, testified that she was not informed of the voting restrictions while in prison and on supervised release. The decision to overturn her sentence comes after years of national attention and criticism of the lower court's ruling.