TX man faces 40+ years for voting in 2020 while on parole.

[Cattledog]

A 62-year-old Texas man who waited hours to cast a ballot in last year’s presidential primary was arrested this week on charges that he had voted illegally.

The man, Hervis Earl Rogers of Houston, waited seven hours outside Texas Southern University to vote in the state’s presidential primary in March 2020. On Wednesday, he was arrested and charged with two counts of illegal voting, a felony. According to court documents, the charges stem from ballots that Mr. Rogers cast on March 3, 2020, and on Nov. 6, 2018, while he was still on parole and not legally permitted to vote.

Tommy Buser-Clancy, a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and one of the lawyers representing Mr. Rogers, said that Mr. Rogers thought that he could vote during the primary.

“Mr. Rogers’s prosecution really shows the danger of overcriminalizing the election code and the process of participating in a democratic society,” he said. “In particular, it raises the danger that criminal statutes in the election code are being used to go after individuals who at worse have made an innocent mistake. That’s not what any laws should be doing.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/texas-primary-voter-arrested.html

[flying_wahini]

1. This really pisses me off so bad.

Makes me sick for this poor man.

[onecaliberal]

8. He is actually locked up in $100,000 bail.

The piece of shit prosecuting him should be banned from ever practicing law again. weaponizing law enforcement cannot be tolerated.

[TheRealNorth]

3. Meanwhile, white Trump voters that voted twice

By impersonating dead relatives in OH and PA get small fines, community service, and/or very short jail sentences.

[Deuxcents]

4. I read here earlier

A go fund me account reached the goal for his bail. Is that so? I’ll check again..

[PortTack]

6. There is..here's the link

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-hervis-rogers?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

It’s up to $112,000, so he will be able to get out on bail. The ACLU has weighed in too.

Here’s the link to the DU page as well
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215610276

[Stuart G]

5. OK...whose idea to arrest him? How did that happen? Is this a Texas thing?

Please arrest the idiot that decided to arrest this person..The governor?..Who else?

[Karma13612]

7. BUT! Apparently it is perfectly legal

To run for office, and even hold office while in jail.

And you can run for/hold office even as a convicted felon.

But, heaven forbid you try to vote.

Shaking my head.

[rickford66]

9. The sentences for the fraudulent Trump voters should be revisited.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. This is an outrage

This is an outrage

Link to tweet

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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

Link to tweet