In Virginia, Ex-Felons Voted For The First Time After Regaining Their Rights

Huffington Post ^ | 11/07/2017 09:59 pm ET | Sam Levine

[sdthree]

During Tuesday’s election in Virginia, Williams had originally planned to go and vote right at 6 a.m., but her ride was delayed a few hours. Williams, a former felon, lost her right to vote decades ago because she was convicted of a felony and Virginia bars felons from voting unless that right is restored by the governor.

Williams, who is now back in school working to earn a degree that will help her become an auto-mechanic, said she was last in prison in 2014, but only recently had her voting rights restored by Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D). And so on Tuesday, at the age of 55, Williams cast a ballot for the first time in her life.

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working to earn a degree that will help her become an auto-mechanic

Auto-mechanics are degreed in Virginia ???

ML/NJ

[Feckless]

DemonRatz largest voting bloc after ILLEGAL ALIENS and the dead.

[Jane Long]

I posted about this, on yesterday’s VA thread.

Sickening. And, sickening that VA voters approve :(

[Axenolith]

Having a felony around your neck for the rest of your life affects employability. If you’re “reformed enough” to be a participant in the Republics machinery of operation you’re reformed enough to not have impairments at all.

There are a lot of crimes that result in felonies that shouldn’t result in permanent BOR disenfranchisement IMO.

I personally know a Vietnam vet who got one for a roach that wasn’t even his in a friends car in 1969 in Texas. You really think someone in that circumstance should never be allowed to vote or own a firearm ever again?

[poinq]

14th Amendment, Section 2 allows states to deny the right to vote for “participation in rebellion, or other crime”

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Yes thats true. I am not saying its not legal. I am just saying its not a good idea.

[clintonh8r]

My comment was about the restoration of voting rights and how they could affect employability. Being a felon is being a felon whether or not one’s voting right has been restored. The only thing that erases that, as far as I know, is a pardon. And yes, that felony conviction will always be a problem with respect to employability.

[Axenolith]

FTR, your comments appeared to cover more than just the voting question because you used the plural in reference to rights subsequent to addressing voting to you’re initial respondee.

Regardless, point taken. I actually have a pretty strict and succinct view of how crime should be managed. Non interactive substance abusers should just be left to their own devices and charity, middle road/mostly non confrontational and low level aggression items have shots for total redemption and then major violence/sociopath/pedophile level stuff either stays in for good or get chunked in the human recycle bin...