Sadly, that’s not satire. As reported by NPR or The Guardian (via Yahoo News):
When Hervis Rogers went viral on social media for being the last person in line at Texas Southern University to cast a vote at 1 a.m. on Super Tuesday in March 2020, he was applauded as a tenacious, civic-minded man who worked hard to exercise his right to vote.
Now, Rogers is being prosecuted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office for allegedly voting illegally.
Of course you know if Paxton is behind it, it is totally screwed up.
So first off, let’s talk about why Rogers’ vote in the primary last year was a crime:
In 1995, Rogers was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison for burglary and intent to commit theft. He was out on parole May 20, 2004, and his parole was set to end June 13, 2020.
“Super Tuesday” was March of 2020, so this man’s crime, such as it was, is that he voted three months before his parole would have ended. Ken Paxton, fine upstanding man and good Christian that he is, is throwing the book at Rogers:
His bail is set at $100,000.
Unbelievable. People accused of violent crimes get lower bail than this man.
Maybe Paxton should focus his attention of people accused of different types of crimes — such as, perhaps, illegally offering bad securities to members of his church?