In the summer of 2019, Pamela Moses, of Memphis, Tennessee, contemplated a campaign to be the city’s next mayor. Moses was 41 years old and a long-time activist with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Moses had pled guilty in 2015 to charges of perjury and tampering with evidence in a case involving allegations that she stalked and harassed a judge. The tampering conviction carried a lifetime ban on voting, which Moses later said she was not told about.