Texas Court Ends Crystal Mason Illegal-Voting Case, Keeping Acquittal

Texas’s highest criminal court voted 5-4 on September 24, 2026, to decline the Tarrant County prosecutor’s appeal, leaving Crystal Mason’s acquittal intact. Mason had received five years in 2018 for casting a provisional 2016 ballot that was never counted while on supervised release. The court gave no explanation, closing a decade-long case over voter knowledge.