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Texas voting law cracks down: I was convicted of voter fraud but my vote didn't even count

I did not know I was ineligible to vote. So a poll worker advised me to vote with a provisional ballot. It never counted, but I was still convicted.

Crystal Mason
Opinion contributor

Five years ago, I never thought about being a voting rights advocate. I wanted to focus on being a good mom and a grandmother. If someone would have told me that I would be part of the ongoing fight for our democracy, I would have laughed. But here I am, in this new role because I have personally been harmed by efforts to target people for supposed “illegal voting.”