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A Texas man who told CNN he waited for "a lit bit over six hours" at a polling center in Houston to participate in Super Tuesday last year was arrested and charged this week with two counts of illegal voting.
According to a June 24 indictment from the Texas attorney general's office, Hervis Earl Rogers, 62, voted in the November 6, 2018, general and special elections and the March 3, 2020, Democratic primary election despite being on felony parole for a 25-year sentence for burglary. Because he was on felony parole, he was ineligible to vote under Texas law, according to the Texas attorney general office.
He was previously convicted of felony burglary charges in 1989 and 1995, according to the indictment.
Rogers could face up to 40 years in prison for the two felony charges of illegal voting, a second degree felony in Texas.
The person commits the offense if they knowingly vote or attempt to vote in an election in which they know they're ineligible.
Texas is a mess when it comes to
voting.
Texas ranks 50 out of 50 in ease of voting. A black man with a record votes and is facing 40 years!! Meanwhile the police officer that murdered George Floyd got 22.5 years for KILLING a human!!