What a truly humanitarian gesture and in no way is designed to pad the voting rolls in VA for the Democrats.

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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More than 200,000 convicted felons will be able to cast ballots in the swing state of Virginia in November under a sweeping executive order Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced Friday.

The Democrat said restoring the rights of former felons to vote and run for office will help undo the state's long history of trying to prevent African-Americans from fully participating in our democracy.

"This is the essence of our democracy and any effort to dilute that fundamental principle diminishes it, folks, for all of us," McAuliffe said on the steps of Virginia's Capitol, before a crowd of more than 100 people that included many ex-felons and left-leaning advocacy groups.

Republicans called the order a bald-faced political move by McAuliffe — a close friend of Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton — to help his party hold onto the White House.

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/virgini...ocid=spartandhp

Nasty Republicans. Racist, too, since blacks represent a far larger percentage of convicted felons than do other racial groups.

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Such policies make black Americans of voting age four times more likely to lose their voting rights than the rest of the adult population, disenfranchising one of every 13 African-American adults nationwide, but Virginia is even more punishing — it's among three states where more than one in five black adults have lost their voting rights, according to a recent Sentencing Project report.

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This is just the begginning. Just wait until obama releases all BLM felons from prison. They will be able to vote in Nov too I bet.