Rachel just nailed re: Hervis Rogers arrest for voter fraud

[tulipsandroses]

She was asking why now?
Paxton will be speaking at CPAC right after dump on Sunday. Something for them to rail about.

Mr. Hervis has been out of prison for 17 yrs. Working 2 jobs.

I think this stupid rule should be abolished. Having said that, putting him in prison for 25 years with a $100, 000 bail is beyond ridiculous.

[brush]

1. Who is he? Republican of Democrat, pls. More info needed.

[tulipsandroses]

5. Earlier thread about Mr. Rogers arrest

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15607709|

[Beaverhausen]

6. He? Ken Paxton republican AG OF Texas

[elleng]

2. ;-(

[Beaverhausen]

3. Ken Paxton is an asshole. Full stop

I hope a gofundme is created for Mr. Rogers

[brush]

9. Hervis Rogers who the OP is about.

[Beaverhausen]

11. Here you go

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/09/1014686526/a-houston-man-is-arrested-for-alleged-illegal-voting-as-texas-gop-seeks-tighter-

[Mike Nelson]

4. I saw that...

... I hope the ACLU helps Mr. Hervis Rogers. In the brief clip, he seemed like such a nice man. Texas wants to send a message to Democrats: DON'T VOTE. Deplorable.

[JI7]

10. Specifically black people

[Mike Nelson]

15. Agree...

... it's obvious.

[questionseverything]

7. We need federal legislation to protect people's voting rights

He obviously didn’t know he was doing anything wrong or he would not have done the interviews after voting


The punishment for voting by mistake sure as the devil shouldn’t be 25 years

[malaise]

8. Excellent indeed

Rec

[Hoyt]

12. Bail and potential sentence are outrageous. He did violate Texas law by a

couple of months. A reasonable fine, maybe. But no prison time.

We have a lot of insurrectionists that we don’t want to vote either, while serving their sentence.

[unblock]

13. It's not "stupid"; it's institutional racism

Abuse of government powers to massively punish certain people for voting.

No government should be able to take away a citizen's right to vote, only in specific cases transfer that right to another jurisdiction.

This is just yet another example of the political corruption inherent in this power.

Massive punishment for at worst a clerical error for something that ought not be an infraction in the first place.

Never mind that the people running the election should have been able to prevent the vote up front rather than allowing it and then later punishing him for voting.

I mean, did the government not have access to the same information somehow?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Montgomery County has two active KKK chapters and is95% white

This is an outrage

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. We're so relieved that Hervis Rogers is no longer in jail.

Link to tweet