Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is not only defying the Virginia Supreme Court’s order to remove 13,000 “invalidly registered” felons — including violent criminals, from voter rolls — he’s mailing voter registration cards directly to them.
Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe says he has individually cleared 13,000 Virginia felons to vote in the 2016 election, just one month after the state’s Supreme Court struck down his earlier sweeping order that automatically restored many felons’ voting rights.
Terry McAuliffe previously claimed only felons who completed their sentences and were no longer on parole could have their voting rights restored.
Leftist groups sprung into action after Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe granted 206,000 felons the right to vote in April, including rapists and murderers, and have been working around the clock to get them on voter rolls.
Democratic Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is defending his move to grant 206,000 felons the right to vote, serve on juries, and run for office, saying “second chances matter” for convicted violent criminals and he wants “you to feel good about yourself.”
Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell blasted Gov. Terry McAuliffe Friday for permitting convicted violent felons to vote, run for office, and serve on juries, adding that the governor issued the order to swing Virginia for Hillary Clinton during the general election.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton praised her former campaign chair Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe for granting violent felons the right to vote on Friday, tweeting she’s “proud” of him for “breaking down barriers.”
In a move called “unprecedented” by the Richmond-Times Dispatch, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe signed a sweeping order that grants 206,000 convicted felons voting rights just months before the presidential election.
On Tuesday, the Democratic governor of Kentucky, sucker-punching the largely GOP state one last time before he leaves office, issued an executive order granting the right to vote to roughly 140,000 nonviolent felons whose sentences have been completed.
