Posted on 11/07/2016 6:22:30 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The news that Virginia’s Governor Terry McAuliffe had secretly pardoned 60,000 felons in his state came as a big surprise to many people. Nevertheless, it can be seen as a sign of desperation and a move that is might be more bark than bite.
From what we are able to piece together, McAuliffe used a mechanical pen to sign 60,000 pardons and therefore give voting rights to worst people in his state. That pardon went to murderers rapists robbers kidnappers and even child molesters with the hope they would vote for Hillary Clinton and guarantee him a place in a new Clinton Admiration.
A review of Virginia’s voter registration process shows that he must have completed his stunt by Oct 21, 2016 which was a time extension; and he sent the material in a special pre-stamped envelope.
Assuming that the felons got their pardon – which could be as low as 50,000 since no one who knows is doing anything but double talking, the felons would need a photo ID to actually vote.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_ID_laws_in_the_United_States
Where they actually vote could be the Achilles Heel of the project. The overwhelming number of Black new voters will likely come from Black and Hispanic poor neighborhoods. When the inevitable snags develop – people not being on the rolls and without photo IDs -the lines will begin to lengthen.
By their nature criminals are narcissistic and always put themselves first. The question will be how many will patiently wait for other felons to get cleared? Moreover how many non-felon but non-enthusiastic minority voters will walk away; how many enthusiastic Donald Trump supporters will gladly wait their turn no matter what?
http://elections.virginia.gov/registration/how-to-register/index.html
Any even slight disruption of the voting process in Virginia’s Black districts will be problematic for Clinton.
An article in the New York Times makes this clear. It said, “In Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, 70 percent of African-Americans under 35 said they were backing Mrs. Clinton, 8 percent indicated support for Mr. Trump and 18 percent said they were backing another candidate or did not know whom they would support. In 2012, Mr. Obama won 92 percent of black voters under 45 nationally, according to exit polling.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/us/politics/young-blacks-voice-skepticism-on-hillary-clinton-worrying-democrats.html
In 2012 Blacks in Virginia were 20% of the electorate. They gave Barack Obama 93% of their votes.
Republican candidate Mitt Romney lost Virginia by just 3% in spite of his poorly run and disorganized campaign. If Hillary Clinton gets just 70% of the Virginia Black vote it would be a big hit; one that might cause her to lose in the Old Dominion.
Even if it is more bark than bite, that dog McAuliffe needs to be put down!
This could have resulted in many thousands of new voters. Not all will vote and not all will vote Hillary.
Does VA require photo ID to register or vote?
If not, the felons are likely voting twice anyway.
I would imagine that the ballots were already drawn up for these criminals, and a mere check beside the other criminal, Crooked Hitlery, would be their pass to get out.
Unless someone wants to prove me wrong, I don’t believe any foundation or university has ever done a study to say that pardoned individuals rush out, register and vote in the next election. I would take a humble guess that out of 100,000....maybe 5,000 would register, and maybe only half of them vote.
The bigger deal? Correct me if I’m wrong but as pardoned individuals....they can now go and purchase a weapon...correct? So out of 100,000.....how many will buy a weapon but not register to vote? Any humble guesses?
If Hillary wins Virginia by less than 60,000 votes, Trump will have grounds to contest the results. This doesn’t help Hillary at all. There’s no evidence that these people will vote for her.
I think these are felons who are already out and have served their time. The pardon is “just” for restoration of voting rights, not to get out of jail.
Dems romanticize low-life criminals. They are the sort who scream, “Give us Barabbas!”
My sense was that the Rats were unable to notify the felons affected was impossible because that would be a fuse leading straight to an indictment.
So there likely were only ten thousand or so that we’re able to register before the deadline even cheating by extending the deadline for a hurricane that did NOTHING here in VA. If this is the extent of fraud in VA, my sense is it ain’t enough. They are gonna need 100,000 plus fraud to cover VA. They could achieve that but only with multiple sources.
Once again we are confronted with the law of unintended consequences.
Don’t worry...the media will start crying about disenfranchisement and some judge will extend voting until March 2017.
Virginia conservatives can now rightly point to the thousands upon thousands of criminals that this bozo has put out on the street. What kind of a criminal mind does such a thing?
It reminds me of that stupid Sylvester Stallone movie “Demolition Man”. This is going to have long lasting consequences for the dhimmicrats - if the conservatives hold their feet to the flames.
Yes.
It will probably come out later that they were pardoned, registered and voted at the same time. No need to show up.
McCauliffe should be put in a cell right next to the Clintons. In fact, that just suggests a brilliant solution to the problem of the Clintons. Bill and Hillary should be jailed in the SAME CELL for the next 20 years. That would be the ultimate punishment for the 2 grifters (in case the firing squad at dawn solution is rejected by the snowflakes.)
These are all people who’ve finished up their prison/jail stay and gone “home”. The state will mail them a letter and encourage them to register, but I seriously doubt that more than 5-percent will register. Maybe in five years, there might be 30-percent.
On the list of one-hundred important things to the average felon who got out of prison....voting is probably way over the hundred-point. I’m just not buying into this as being a pay-back agenda. Maybe on paper, it looks good....but show me a study where felons actually went to register to vote. There’s not even a study to show the political persuasion of most felons, drug dealers, or meth-users.
These are all people who’ve finished up their prison/jail stay and gone “home”. The state will mail them a letter and encourage them to register, but I seriously doubt that more than 5-percent will register. Maybe in five years, there might be 30-percent.
On the list of one-hundred important things to the average felon who got out of prison....voting is probably way over the hundred-point. I’m just not buying into this as being a pay-back agenda. Maybe on paper, it looks good....but show me a study where felons actually went to register to vote. There’s not even a study to show the political persuasion of most felons, drug dealers, or meth-users.
I registered when I moved into the state and went to the DMV. The DMV had a vetting person that made sure you had sufficient documents before giving you a number. You had to have both proof of identity, residence, and legal presence. I don’t know how they would separate out legal immigrants to prohibit them from registering to vote. I also don’t know how other registrations are vetted. I do know I have show ID when I vote. My particular county uses paper ballots, marked with a pen and then fed into a reader.
Will they rush out and vote? No. In fact it’s almost guaranteed none will. But you can bet the farm their ballots will still be countered in the Dem column.
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