McAuliffe Gives 60,000 Felons Voting Rights in Swing State Virginia

Breitbart ^ | November 7, 2016 | KEN KLUKOWSKI

[NYer]

Gov. Terry McAuliffe has illegally granted voting rights to 60,000 convicted felons in the key swing state of Virginia, a move that could give Hillary Clinton a victory in that state—and possibly the White House—unless supporters of Donald Trump get out to the polls on Election Day.

Like many states, the Virginia Constitution provides that if a person commits a felony, with their lawbreaking, they forfeit the right to vote for candidates who will make and enforce those laws. But it also grants the Virginia governor clemency power to pardon criminals and commute sentences, including the power to restore voting rights.

But Gov. Terry McAuliffe—one of Hillary Clinton’s oldest and most loyal supporters—declared on April 22 of this year that he was using this pardon power to restore voting rights to 206,000 convicted felons in Virginia. This was a political bombshell, because felons vote overwhelmingly in favor of Democrats, and Virginia is a swing state (made all the more so by Clinton’s tapping Sen. Tim Kaine from that state as her running mate).

Virginia lawmakers sued, and the Virginia Supreme Court held in Howell v. McAuliffe that the Clinton ally’s political move was an unprecedented power grab that previous governors of both parties had acknowledged was illegal.

[NYer]

Ping!

[Does so]

Gaming the system, as all Dems will.

[KavMan]

Will felons really stand in line for 2-3 hours to vote for cooked Hillary? LOL

[RKBA Democrat]

Old news. McAwful being himself. Oddly, this is not a guarantee that those felons will turn around and vote for the criminal. Myself and other FReepers have had first hand experiences with some of these folks being for Trump.

[Ulysse]

SUE him !!

Don’t let DHIMMYRATS STEAL those elections .
FIGHT teeth and nails till the END

[jsanders2001]

And should be impeached, removed from office, bring barrred from ever serving in office again for this treason against his own nation to put another felon into office. That makes him an accessory to the crime.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

They won’t have to. You can bet their absentee ballots were already filled out and mailed in for them before the pardon ink was dry.

[jsanders2001]

Actually now I get "it" (why he did this) after pulling up a pic on the guy. I see the "gay eye" or "perv eye" hidden in his photo. It doesn't matter if they're married or not these days; politician's can still play "married" but be bending some pajama boy over in the bath house while his "beard" spoiled socialite wife who may even be bisexual herself will go all along with it for all the perks and money. I bet he and Hillary have winked at each other passing by each through the Halls of Congress smiling and winking at each knowing the secrets they probably share. It's the LGBT thing. They have a their gaydar go off when they're around each other so they just "know". It puts them in that exclusive "club" where they get to reap destruction on a nation "in secret":

[Rusty0604]

Just saw a long line to vote already in a county in VA that HLN says is usually conservative.

[jsanders2001]

Tell me this guy (McAuliffe) is not a little swishy and far left of center. My gut instincts were right on the mark:

http://www.independentsentinel.com/terry-mcauliffe-do-you-believe-how-bad-this-guy-is/

Now I bet this guy would love a ride out to Pedophile Island on the Lolita Express...

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Felons to vote for the felon.

[Terry L Smith]

May the families of those who were wronged by those released, find the appropriate blade for natural justice to be done.

[generally]

Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if it turns out that they vote for Trump?

(I’d like to see him take Virginia with a margin that far exceeds the felon vote.)

[RKBA Democrat]

I’ll be poll watching. We’ll see what it looks like when I get there.

[proxy_user]

Only a few hundred will vote. Most of them are very shy about any sort of official dealings with the government.

[Rusty0604]

Thanks.

[silverleaf]

Then 70000 good people who never voted must go out today and nullify the criminals

God bless you Virginia and Guide us all

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Not so bad’, right? Sounds benign, a small number like that. But McAwful has 1 million provisional ballots for felons [and probably others] to vote.

[GreyFriar]

Yes, falls into the category of ‘dirty,’ but I do wonder how many of them will actually register and vote.