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??
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.
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?
What does it tell you about a party that has the criminal vote locked in?
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!
Disenfranchised for a felony conviction’
Ah the democrat logic at work no wonder thins are so screwed up.
Interesting that he trusts these people with the vote but not with a gun. I personally believe that anyone convicted of a single NON-VIOLENT felony, and who has had no trouble with the law for ten years since completion of their sentence should have ALL of their civil rights restored.
If I can’t trust you with a gun, then I can’t trust you with a vote. And vice versa.
So they can pass NICS now?
Not good enough, McAwful.
You need to sign a bill that lets violent felons vote 25 times, non-violent felons vote 10 times, and deny the vote to people who have not been convicted of a felony.
Of all the sleazy, scumbag, snake-bellied, slug Clinton Enablers I can remember, McAwful ranks right up there with little Georgie, Rahm, Begala, and the one true snake Carville.
Restoration of rights
Restores right to vote, sit on jury, hold public office, and serve as a notary public. It does not restore firearms rights. In 2015, Governor McAuliffe adopted a policy allowing individuals that have had their rights restored to have that restoration noted on their official criminal record if they choose. See https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=11651.
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.... There is definitely a panic and rush to get Illegal Immigrants and the rights of Felons restored ASAP by the Obama administration for some reason.