LONDON, Mar 6 (NNN-XINHUA) – Several prominent U.S. cases, where Black people got harsher sentences, for unintentional voting errors than whites, who committed fraud, have shown that, there is a racial double standard in the country’s criminal justice system, The Guardian reported.
Bruce Bartman, white, was only sentenced to five years of probation, after he went to Pennsylvania’s voter registration website and signed up his mother and mother-in-law, both dead, to vote in the late summer of 2020, the report said.
A black woman named Pamela Moses, in Memphis, however, was sentenced to six years in prison, in late Jan, for trying to register to vote, while she was unaware of her ineligibility.
The case, among many similar ones, underscored what experts see as a double standard in the U.S. criminal justice system, the report said, adding, while white people face relatively light punishment for intentional cases of fraud, black people face tougher punishment for unintentional voting errors.
