ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月3日 06時12分

Keith Sellars was driving home from dinner last December when he was pulled over for running a red light. The officer ran a background check and came back with bad news for Keith. His crime: Illegal voting. “I didn’t know,” said Keith, who spent the night in jail before his family paid his $2,500 bond. “I thought I was practicing my right.” The 44-year-old is one of a dozen people in Alamance County in #NorthCarolina who’ve been charged with voting illegally in the 2016 presidential election. All were on probation or parole for felony convictions, which in some states disqualifies a person from voting. If convicted, they face up to 2 years in prison. While election experts and public officials across the U.S. say there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, local prosecutors and officials in states including North Carolina have sought to send a tough message by filing criminal charges against the tiny fraction of people who are caught voting illegally. Whitney Brown — who was photographed here with Keith by @travisdovephoto — said that no judge, lawyer or probation officer ever told her that she’d temporarily lost her right to vote after she pleaded guilty to a 2014 charge of writing bad checks. So when her mother invited her to come with her to vote, Whitney went without a second thought. Months later, she got a letter from state election officials telling her she appeared to have voted illegally. “My heart dropped,” she said. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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