Lessadolla Sowers was found guilty last year on 10 counts of voter fraud for casting absentee ballots in the names of voters both living and dead. This week Mississippi’s Supreme Court upheld the convictions and the sentence – five years for each count, to be served concurrently. Sowers, identified at the time as a member of the Tunica County NAACP executive committee, denied her guilt but was refuted by witnesses, including voters who testified they “did not sign the applications or absentee ballots cast in their names and showing Sowers’ Post Office box address,” and by testing that “confirmed Sowers’ DNA on the inner seal of five envelopes.” The Commercial Appeal has more.
Still Guilty: Mississippi Supreme Court Upholds Voter Fraud Conviction of One-Time NAACP Official
Lessadolla Sowers was found guilty last year on 10 counts of voter fraud for casting absentee ballots in the names of voters both living and dead. This week Mississippi’s Supreme Court upheld the convictions and the sentence – five years for each count, to be served concurrently. Sowers, identified at the time as a member of the Tunica County NAACP executive committee, denied her guilt but was refuted by witnesses, including voters who testified they “did not sign the applications or absentee ballots cast in their names and showing Sowers’ Post Office box address,” and by testing that “confirmed Sowers’ DNA on the inner seal of five envelopes.” The Commercial Appeal has more.