Democrats Assail 'Jim Crow' Assault On Voting Rights. So What's Their Plan?
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🗓️ 14 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Last year, a man in Harris County, Texas waited more than six hours to vote. |
| 0:05.4 | I want to get my vote in and I want to go and let it unstop me. |
| 0:09.4 | Hervus Rodgers was the very last voter in like... |
| 0:13.4 | Hervus Rodgers was one of the last people to vote in the Democratic primary on Super Tuesday |
| 0:18.6 | in Houston. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm being here for like five hours, but I got to finish the job though. |
| 0:24.3 | And it made him the subject of a lot of national news coverage, including on NPR. |
| 0:28.6 | Rodgers was the last to vote at the polling site at 1am. |
| 0:32.7 | That was last year. |
| 0:34.5 | This week, in a story that says a lot about the fight over voting rights in this country, |
| 0:39.8 | Hervus Rodgers was arrested for voting in that election. |
| 0:43.4 | Waiting six hours to vote could end up costing this Houston man years in prison. |
| 0:49.6 | His attorney says it was an honest mistake. |
| 0:51.8 | Rodgers didn't know that under Texas election law, which is among the most restrictive |
| 0:55.8 | in the country, he was not eligible to vote. |
| 0:58.2 | And that's because he was on parole, stemming from burglary charges decades before. |
| 1:03.5 | His parole status...well, it was due to expire just three months after he voted. |
| 1:09.3 | He was arrested. |
| 1:10.6 | Just a day before the Texas legislature began a special session that would have considered |
| 1:15.8 | a new law that would make it even harder to vote. |
| 1:19.0 | The Texas bill would mandate new ID requirements for voting by mail and ban drive-through voting |
| 1:24.0 | sites and 24 hour voting. |
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