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New York governor to allow 35,000 paroled felons to vote
Reuters ^
| APRIL 18, 2018
| Reuters Staff
Posted on 04/19/2018 5:03:02 AM PDT by Bogie
New York State plans to restore voting rights to about 35,000 New York felons on parole who previously were barred from casting a ballot until they completed their parole, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; birdsofafeather; constitution; crime; elections; nationalwelfare; newyork; postedseveraltimes
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Kind of prohibited by Constitutional law.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:03:03 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: Bogie
The pardons aren’t. An EO would have been. But this is perplexing as heck. If Cuomo does have national aspirations, he can kiss them goodbye after this.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:05:41 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: Bogie
A dumb dago in an expensive suit.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:05:45 AM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
To: Bogie
Donning my tinfoil chapeau for a moment, what if this isn’t about voting at all...What if this is just a way to hide one or more pardons that Cuomo knows wouldn’t pass the smell test...?
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:07:58 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: mewzilla
Well, I was hoping to give people a “heads Up” by posting this.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:13:30 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: Ouderkirk
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:14:29 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: mewzilla
Cuomo never ceases to amaze the dwindling number of hard working Conservatives in The People’s Democratic Republic of New York.... AG Schneiderman no doubt is all on board with this, how ironic!
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:15:21 AM PDT
by
MGunny
To: Bogie
Democrats know they are running out of real voters.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:15:32 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: mewzilla
Maybe, dono, it’s illogical as it stands.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:16:05 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: MGunny
Yeah, I live here too, alas.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:17:35 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: Bogie
I live in NYS. This ain’t going over well Upstate. Especially in light of the crime and drugs-related issues Upstate is having. Not that Albany gives a rat’s a$$ about Upstate.
I hate to say it, but EVERY SINGLE one of those pardons will have to be scrutinized.
Every. Single. One.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:17:54 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: bmwcyle
Exactly what I was thinking, a dependable source of “yellow dog Democrats.”
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:19:24 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: bmwcyle
Dems aren’t running out. It’s makers fleeing the state, not takers. That’s why, from a voter roll standpoint, this makes no sense.
Unless Cuomo is worried about DINO voters....
If so...goody.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:20:17 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: mewzilla
Agreed! I live in the Hudson Valley, worked for NYSDOCS, retired, and it sure isn’t going over well with me.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:22:24 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: Bogie
Well, we already knew that the Democrats are the party of lawlessness and criminal enterprise.
This just adds more proof to the pile. Remove the criminals, the illegals, and the DNC wouldn't win another election for the next fifty years.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:28:33 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
(Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. Particulary when that ignorance is cultivated.)
To: Bogie
And they will vote democrat.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:32:28 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
To: Joe Brower
It has been said that a pardon is Constitutional, and, that may be a valid gimmick to get what Dems want, but it is clearly a violation of the intention in the Constitution.
Education is the real road to success, for the wayward citizen , rather than him being used as a political stepping stone.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:39:43 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: I want the USA back
Mob appeasement tactics from the Roman Empire.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:46:41 AM PDT
by
Bogie
To: mewzilla
The pardons aren’t. An EO would have been. But this is perplexing as heck. If Cuomo does have national aspirations, he can kiss them goodbye after this. Didn't seem to bother the good people of VA.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:49:38 AM PDT
by
ealgeone
To: mewzilla
According to his kid on CNN he also is working on a way to circumvent Presidential pardons.
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posted on
04/19/2018 5:57:12 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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