Charges against a Houston man accused of illegally voting are dropped

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."At the time of his arrest, ACLU officials told CNN that Rogers did not know he was voting illegally.

“We are thrilled that justice has been done for Mr. Rogers. He never should have been prosecuted in the first place, and this ruling allows him to put this traumatic ordeal behind him and move on with his life,” said Tommy Buser-Clancy, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Texas.

The Texas attorney general’s office has not yet commented on the judge’s decision to dismiss the criminal charges.

The night Rogers voted, he told CNN that he had not been deterred by the incredibly long lines at his polling location and was going to wait as long as it took to cast his ballot.

“I figured, like, it was my duty to vote. I wanted to get my vote in to voice my opinion. And I wasn’t going to let nothing stop me. So I waited it out,” Rogers said in March 2020.

He had been the last person to cast his ballot at his polling center located at Texas Southern University, a historically Black university in Houston, CNN previously reported."

Good to see something good happening involving law enforcement!