A North Texas woman convicted of illegal voting has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for violating her parole from a fraud case by casting a ballot.
Crystal Mason was sentenced in March to five years in state prison for voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election. When she voted, Mason was on parole from a previous federal fraud charge.
State law prohibits voting by a person still serving a sentence for a crime.
This week, Mason was convicted in federal court because voting was a violation of her parole.