Texas Court Keeps Mason Acquittal in Illegal-Voting Case

Texas’s top criminal court voted 5-4 on September 24, 2026, to reject the Tarrant County prosecutor’s appeal, keeping Crystal Mason’s acquittal. Mason got five years in 2018 for casting a provisional 2016 ballot — a backup ballot never counted — while on supervised release. The court gave no explanation, closing a decade-long case over voter knowledge.