Voters living in Alabama’s House District 52 will decide Tuesday who will complete the term of former Rep. John Rogers, who resigned and pleaded guilty in March to federal corruption charges.

Democrat Kelvin Datcher will face Republican Erskine Brown Jr. in the special election. Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the district.

Datcher, deputy director of community development for the city of Birmingham, appeared to be destined for the seat after winning a July 16 runoff against nonprofit executive Frank Woodson. At that time, the lone Republican in the race, Carlos Crum, had already dissolved his campaign.

But shortly before a July 30 deadline, the Alabama Republican Party submitted Brown’s name to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office as its nominee.

Efforts to reach Brown or GOP officials have been unsuccessful.

At the time he qualified for the race, the 67-year Brown, 67, told al.com that he last ran for office four decades ago as a Democrat seeking a state Senate seat.

Datcher, a 1992 graduate of Gettysburg College, also served as the Alabama state director for the Bernie Sanders campaign.

House District 52 covers parts of Birmingham, including the Glen Iris, Powderly, Southwest Birmingham and West End communities; along with sections of Homewood, Mountain Brook, Bessemer, Fairfield and unincorporated Jefferson County. See the map here.

Before resigning this year, Rogers had held the office since the 1980s. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama, Rogers pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with the scheme to defraud the Jefferson County Community Service Fund. The scheme involved giving $400,000 from the taxpayer-funded Service Fund to the Piper Davis Youth Baseball League and then, along with his assistant, receiving $200,000 of that money back.

Rogers reported to a federal prison Sept. 3 to begin serving his 13-month sentence.

Read Datcher’s profile.