A Black Lives Matter chapter founder has been sentenced to six years in prison for illegally registering to vote while serving probation.
Fox News reports:
“You tricked the probation department into giving you documents saying you were off probation,” Criminal Court Judge W. Mark Ward told the founder of the Black Lives Matter chapter in Memphis, Pamela Moses, on Monday.
Moses pleaded guilty in 2015 to felonies including tampering with evidence and forgery, as well as misdemeanor charges of perjury, stalking, theft under $500, and escape. She was ineligible to vote in Tennessee due to her tampering with evidence charge and was currently serving seven years of probation.
Moses contended during her hearing last week that she believed she could vote again despite her convictions, because the corrections department and county election commission both signed off on her voter registration application in 2019.
However, the officials who signed off on the application admitted they made an error when they said her probation was over, the Washington Post reported.
Moses founded the local BLM chapter in Memphis. her attorney says she plans to appeal the ruling.
