well, she keeps up with the prosecutions of the people involved in the january 6th insurrection. and obviously she is fascinated to say the least by the fact that so many of them are getting might be getting no jail or prison time at all or many of them are getting very lenient sentences. and when you compare that to what she got, to what she had to deal with, she s already had to go back and do eight months in prison because of this and she s facing five years now. so you look at what she s already given to this and look at how some of these folks are going to walk away with their lives relatively unchanged, you ve really got to wonder, what s the point? and she does. vann newkirk righting for the atlantic about the case of crystal mace-upon i want to read one more quote where you say they gin up fear about fraud and then use the fear to prosecute voting infractions and then use
arrested for alleged illegal voting. you write in part, quote, the story of mason, a black woman, illuminates the extraordinary efforts the republican party has made to demonstrate that fraud is being committed by minority voters on a massive scale. that false notion is now an article of faith among tens of millions of americans. it has become an excuse to enact laws that make voting harder for everyone but especially for voters of color, voters who are poor, voters who are old, voters who were not born in the united states. it is a vicious cycle, which is exactly the point. first, general fear about fraud. then use that fear to aggressively prosecute voting infractions. then use those prosecutions to create stricter laws. then use stricter laws to induce stricter fraud and then use the examples to jin up even more