i ll also tell tu that the aclu of texas put out a statement, quote, the arrest and prosecution of mr. hervis rogers should alarm all texans. he waited in line six hours to vote to fulfill his civic duty. he is locked up on a bail amount that most people could not afford. he faces potentially decades in jail. hour laws should not intim date team from voting by increasing the risk of prosecution for mistakes. we will continue to fight for justice and mr. rogers and will push back to efforts to further restrict voting lights. only he had been a white guy casting a vote in a name of a dead relative for donald trump, right? can t we all agree that s the way that i will also tell you that the texas attorney general has put out his own statement, sort of. at least he tweeted. he refers to local public radio news article that broke the news of hervis rogers arrest as,
harris county, texas, home to houston, they were not prepared for the huge turnout on super tuesday last month. there were crazy long likes at polling places, particularly in heavily minority communities. people in those communities had to wait hours to vote in many circumstances. and that was when the mention met her voice rogers. mr. rogers was the last person in line at the polling site on texas southern university s campus that night. that s him, bald guy in the white shirt on the other side of that glassdoor. he got to the poll site before 7:00 p.m. in the end, it took him 6 hours and 20 minutes to get to the front of the line and cast his ballot. he finally walked out of that polling place after 1:30 in the morning. according to some reports, he may have been the last person in texas to cast a vote that night. he wait inside line more than six hours. he told reporters it was worth
he convinced harris county officials to approve millions more doll toers pay for poll workers and drive-thru voting and mail-in ballots to try to ease the bottlenecks that led to long lines during the primary. we spoke to him. you might remember the first day of early voting for the general election last year when his hard work paid off. that day, the first day of early voting, hashz county had a record smashing turnout. almost double the early voting turnout in 2016. harris county continued to marsh smash early voting records. it also recorded the highest voter turnout in decades in large part because harris county made voting so easy and accessible. vote at more times in more places, vote from your car, vote by mail. texas republicans looked at that, they looked at record voter turnout in their largest city and they said, oh no, we cannot let that happen again. than is why texas state
vote in case we can sort out whatever seems to be the matter. a few months after that experience she was arrested and charged with illegal voting because when she filled out that provisional ballot she was on supervised release after completing a prison sentence for federal conviction. and she thought because she had served her time in prison that she was eligible to vote. she didn t know under texas law you are not eligible to vote unless you have also completed any probation or supervised release after release from prison. she did not know that. even though that was a technical misunderstanding and even though she cast a provisional ballot and her provisional ballot was never counted, she nevertheless was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. five years hard time for illegal voting. so if you are a republican white guy engaged in an elaborate
presidential votes for biden and declare donald trump the winner? yeah, you know, forge your dead parents signature in order to vote for trump. slap on the wrist, maybe. try to overturn a whole democratically decided election? you get to be attorney general of texas, even if you are already under indictment. but wait in line for over six hours to cast a vote a few weeks before your parole is up, you get locked up with bail you cannot possibly pay, charged in a county designed to ensure an all-white jury four, threatened with decades in prison. seems to be where we are tonight. joining us is texas state representative nicole collier, she represents part of fort worth. thank you for being here. i appreciate being here. obviously, i am talking about a couple of things that are happening at once here. this case of mr. hervis rogers, his arrest, potential charges