Posted on 04/22/2016 8:16:38 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Gov. Terry McAuliffe this morning will sign an order that effectively restores the civil rights, including the right to vote, of more than 200,000 felons in Virginia.
The unprecedented move, expected to be announced at an 11 a.m. news conference on Capitol Square, marks a dramatic expansion of policy in restoring the right to vote, to sit on a jury, to serve in elected office or become a notary.
Today's order applies to nonviolent and violent felons - a significant departure from a policy embraced in recent years by Democrat and Republican governors to remove the societal obstacles felons face upon completing their sentences.
"Under the Constitution of Virginia, the governor has the authority to 'remove political disabilities consequent upon conviction' for felonies," according to a confidential draft of research for the order obtained by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
"Using this authority, the governor has issued an order restoring civil rights to a large number of Virginians currently disenfranchised for a felony conviction."
The order, effective today, applies to "any felon who has completed any term of incarceration and completed any period of supervised release, probation or parole, for any and all felony convictions."
(Excerpt) Read more at richmond.com ...
Well, so long Virginia....
Got to shore up that dim. voter base.
That’s funny. I wonder why a Democrat would want 200,000 felons (including violent felons) to be able to vote in the next election.
This is designed to throw the next election into the Dem column!
Is he giving them Guns too??
Put them on juries? Absolutely crazy.
The fruits of electing Clinton’s bag man as Governor. Virginia has terminal leftist cancer that continues to spread from the Northern Virginia Federal enclaves.
McAwful may assume that they will all vote for Hillary, but because of Hillary’s unpopularity with men, maybe only 90% will.
That was my question as well. I’ll bet he’s restored voting rights but not Second Amendment rights.
That Clinton stooge McAwful had better keep an extra pardon in his desk ready to be filled out when HE ends up a felon one day, and I have every confidence that utlimately, he will.
Including himself?
Is this so that Hillary and Hooma can vote in subsequent elections?
From the short article, it appears not.
The unprecedented move, expected to be announced at an 11 a.m. news conference on Capitol Square, marks a dramatic expansion of policy in restoring the right to vote, to sit on a jury, to serve in elected office or become a notary.
What does it tell you about a party that has the criminal vote locked in?
Hillary sycophant touche!
That ought to build a pretty solid voting bloc....
One man, one vote, one way, forever.
Assuming gun rights are also restored, I support this. There is the “punishment ends” scenario and the “punishment never ends” scenario. If a punishment is determined for any given crime, when the punishment is served, the person should be restored to full citizen status, rather than having a pall hang over them for the rest of their lives.
That said, given that this kind of treatment means that violent people might be let back out into society, I would _strongly suggest_ that sentences are adapted in light of this treatment, and, in particular, strongly suggest that the sentence for people who repeatedly commit crimes, and especially violent crimes, receive life in prison, if not death, because they have shown that they are unlikely to ever be able to live normally within society ever again.
McAwful knows and loves kindred spirits!
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