he voted in a general election. here is why. because he was on felony parole and ineligible to vote in texas. rogers was convicted of felony burglary charges in 1989 and 1995. the law says people cannot knowingly vote in they know that they are ineligible. the aclu is representing rogers and claims he did not realize he was voting illegally. let s bring in robert stieinbur. the group providers rogers $100,000 bail. thank you for being with us. you say that this is the example, this is what we should pay attention to as we watch what is happening in texas as laws become more restrictive for people to vote. explain that. absolutely. thank you for having me. this story and what happened here to mr. rogers is shameful. the american public should be
. a texas man could face up to 40 years in prison after the state s attorney general says he voted illegally. he was the last one standing in a long line on super tuesday last year in houston. he explained to cnn at the time why he waited six plus hours to cast his ballot. we feel good about it. you know, it might make a difference. i know i can say i put my vote in. why didn t you walk away? i was debating on that. i said so myself, don t do that. it seemed like the way it was going, it was set up for me to walk away. walk away, don t worry about it. i said i m not going to do that. if it happen again, i would do the same thing all over again. okay, now according to state officials, rogers broke the law that day and back in 2018 when
special election in march of 2020. they say this is why we need these laws. those to those people, you say what? the texas legislature is in session until just a few minutes ago and they were doing a variety of things. they were trying to pass laws that would expand the use of cash bail, that would further justice. one for people with resources and one for people without. they were trying to make it harder for people to vote. people who believe they have the right to vote. they are targeting charitable bail bonds and trying to restrict the use while allowing the for profit bail bond industry to operate. this is literally an attack on our democracy. think about the cornersdoen of our democracy is the right to vote and the right to be presumed innocent. these attacks in the state legislature have actually undermine both those things. mr. rogers mistakenly believed he had the right to vote. we can talk about that. that can be litigated in a