"Shit your honor, I'm a dumb fucking boomer and I thought any public notary could do online notarizin'." Never attribute to malice what you can attribute to stupidity.
Now, I think Ty is great. But remember he has 10k people watching him every night, independent entites from both sides judging every move and filing he makes. That's a lot of fucking pressure. So Ty Beard is a human being and fucked up. By the way, you know how to become an online notary in Texas?
You're a notary, you fill out a form and pay fifty dollars. And approval is basically automatic. That's it. So please, tell me, by basically fucking up paperwork with 0 bar of entry, extra qualifications or tests, then rectifying that mistake, how is that fraud? You could make the case he attempted to de-fraud the state of its natural right of 50 of Ty Beard's dollars, but the case? Seriously?
You've already got remote notarization, so that shit doesn't matter. And its basically already a notary who paid fifty bucks. That's all it is to be one. This is much ado about nothing. Its why Lemoinie's reaction was so comical. Because this is equivalent to having the wrong paperwork. If he wasn't a notary, sure. But if you think that forgetting you had to fill out an e-form and submit 50 bucks is sanctionable and fraud, every lawyer in the country would be in jail.