Maybe youve heard of Crystal Mason . Last year, a Texas judge sentenced her to five years in prison for illegally voting in the 2016 election.

Voting rights advocates say Masons severe sentence is obvious voter suppression an attempt to scare people with felony convictions from voting (the district attorney prosecuting the case denies this).

During Masons trial, a probation official conceded he never told her she couldnt vote. Mason admitted she signed an affidavit swearing she was an eligible voter, but says she never read the fine print saying she couldnt vote if she was on supervision for a felony. She ended up voting with a provisional ballot that was not ultimately counted in 2016.

Mason appealed her sentence , and three justices on the Texas Court of Appeals could issue a ruling at any time.

HuffPost spent several days with Mason in the days leading up to the oral argument in her appeal. At the time, Mason was still deeply optimistic that the justices in her case all Republicans would exonerate her. Watch HuffPost Reports video above.