On April 27, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe issued this press release. Since July 2016, he has restored the voting rights of 156,000 ex-felons. In July 2016 the Virginia Supreme Court had rejected his attempts to restore such rights en masse. Since then he has had to do this work for each individual ex-felon.
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Edited By Richard Winger
That’s 560 a day, 7 days a week.
Good. It makes no sense that people who are done with their prison sentence should lost their right to vote. I’m not a huge fan of Terry, but he’;s doing good on this issue.
McAuliffe is on the right side of history with this issue.