In his February 9 story on MSNBC’s The Reid Report, headlined “Counted Out,” network correspondent Zachary Roth offered viewers a misleading look at the plight of an Iowa woman — now suing the state for restoration of her voting rights — who “had been charged with illegal voting.”
“For a lot of people, this sounds insane, the idea that this woman, that people would try to jail her for thinking she could vote again,” anchor Joy-Ann Reid told Roth after the conclusion of his pre-taped segment.
But in point of fact, the woman in question, a convicted drug offender named Kelli Jo Griffin, was prosecuted last March for committing perjury by virtue of allegedly lying about her voting disqualification on a voter registration form.
