VA: Virginia Governor Enables 200,000 Felons to Vote in November

[dax00]

Terry McAulliffe is one of the best governors in the country.
Maybe progressives who dismissed him as a DLC centrist beholden to big business should pause for a minute and think about it.

Passing a good piece of legislation does not absolve anyone of being beholden to big business.

[Landslide Lyndon]

This drops the percentage of disenfranchised black adults in Virginia from 20% to roughly 3%.

Even if only a handful of these felons end up voting in November, that's still a huge number.

Yup, and once the voting rights are given back, a Republican Governor down the line can't rescind their rights again. So these people have them for good. As I said above, if even 20% of those newly-enfranchised black ex-felons vote in 2016 (which, give or take is a number in line with ex-felon voting rates iirc), then that adds over 35,000 - 37,000 votes to Hillary's count, assuming they vote almost unanimously Democratic, as African Americans typically do.

This makes me feel pretty good about Northam's gubernatorial run in 2017 as well

I am sure there are some white people in this group too

Bob McDonnell for one.

[Suburbia]

I'm not a fan of felons voting. Some of them are hard core felons, some of them rapists, etc. I'm not so pleased with this.

[Miles]

FF!

[NeverAgain]

I always liked McAuliffe. He's a FF.

[Suburbia]

I always liked McAuliffe. He's a FF.

McAuliffe is a good man, but I respectfully disagree on this.

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Eh, so it changed from category 5 to category 4? An improvement, but not far enough.

[NeverAgain]

I always liked McAuliffe. He's a FF.

McAuliffe is a good man, but I respectfully disagree on this.

How?