Minnesota Democrats to Restore Voting Rights for 55,000 Convicted Felons
Democrat legislators in Minnesota are poised to restore voting rights for as many as 55,000 convicted felons across the state.
Democrat legislators in Minnesota are poised to restore voting rights for as many as 55,000 convicted felons across the state.
Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City and failed Democratic presidential candidate, has raised $16 million to pay the fines of black and Hispanic felons — only — so that they can be eligible to vote in Florida this fall.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) caved to Black Lives Matter and signed an executive order on Wednesday granting voting rights to those who have served their felony sentences.
Bernie Sanders believes racist mass-murderer Dylann Roof should receive an absentee ballot from the Sanders 2020 campaign.
CNN hosts Christopher Cuomo and Don Lemon on Tuesday expressed bewilderment after 2020 Democrat presidential candidates Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) said they are open to allowing convicted U.S. citizens — including the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — to vote from prison.
Pop star Cher defended herself from attacks on social media Tuesday in a series of now-deleted tweets after she was criticized for questioning Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) plan to let felons and terrorists vote.
Pop star Cher questioned the wisdom of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) recent declaration that felons, even terrorists, should have the right to vote.
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.