VA Governor McAuliffe Restores Voting Rights to Felons

You can call this a case of padding the Democrat voter rolls.

From Politico: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Friday announced that he had signed an executive order that effectively restores the civil rights, including the right to vote, of 206,000 felons, who have been banned from voting in the state since the Civil War.

“Today is a day in Virginia for celebration,” McAuliffe said in making his announcement in Richmond, noting that it was a priority for him as a gubernatorial candidate.

So while Republican governors are battling to maintain their citizens’ religious freedoms or to block government overreach and protect their women and children from obtrusive laws that allow predators into their private spaces, Terry McAuliffe is focusing on building the Democrat base.

While the intent sounds noble, the reality is closer to the dirty politics Democrats are so fond of. McAuliffe is a true Clintonista and to free this many new [presumed] Democrats into the voting pool months before an election is directly intended to tip the state in favor of the Democrat nominee.

By “brighter future” he means for he and his Democrat colleagues. It’s the rest of us who will suffer from another self-serving Democrat’s executive order.

More From Redstate.com: