Posted on 04/25/2016 5:59:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
In what is likely an unconstitutional state action seemingly calculated to ensure that the purple state of Virginia goes blue in the November election, Governor Terry McAuliffe (D.) signed an order on Friday restoring the voting rights of 206,000 ex-felons in Virginia, including those convicted of murder, armed robbery, rape, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. The order also restores their right to sit on a jury, become a notary, and even serve in elected office.
McAuliffe believes that ex-felons can be trusted to make decisions in the ballot booth and the jury box but apparently not to own a gun. He draws the line at restoring their Second Amendment rights; that would be a bridge too far. His order specifically does not restore their “right to ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms.” And while his order requires that felons complete probation and parole before enjoying restoration of their rights, it applies regardless of whether they have paid any court fines or restitution to victims.
What McAuliffe entirely dismisses is the principle that if you won’t follow the law yourself, you can’t demand a role in making the law for everyone else, which is what you do when you vote. Restoring a felon’s right to vote should be done not automatically, as soon as he has completed his sentence, but carefully, on a case-by-case basis, after he has shown that he has really turned over a new leaf. The unfortunate truth is that many people who walk out of prison will be walking back in; recidivism rates are high. We have both testified before Congress and written about this problem. Governor McAuliffe may be happy as long as the ex-felons who can now vote just don’t walk back into prison before November.
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you can't depend on your fellow conservatives to actually do what needed to be done and yet you blame the pubs?....
Conservatives are best eating their own. Anything else and they get all wobbly.
Why else is the circular firing squad such a reoccurrence?
They will turn out for Mrs. Bill; then, maybe not so much. Butr, Mrs. Bill is the name of the game this year. People like Mrs. Bill.
This is a good point, but VA people probably won’t understand it.
They absolutely should challenge and, and ASAP. He went full-hog and even included violent felons. This is a naked grab for power for his pal-in-crime.
Technically, the presidential election is a state election.
What? No more "Brown 25"?
You'll shut down the media!
I don’t think adding every FReeper ever signed up, zotted, multiple account, dormant or active to Romney’s vote total would have put him over the top. Let’s get real. It was voter fraud that put Obozo back in, pure and simple.
“What can be done to reverse this?”
Absolutely nothing because a larger and larger part of the electorate likes it, just as it likes the Democrat voter drive that is being camouflaged as a humanitarian effort by Progressives; Progressives will be in power forever when it’s done.
IMHO
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