Go big or go home

McAuliffe is not backing down, that is the spirit we need!

At some point in time we must address the abuse of power which has stripped voting rights from minorities by the millions. These egregios laws have altered the course of American democracy and fostered the current police state.

They have paid their debt to society, now they should be treated like human beings, citizens with RIGHTS. Half the people in government would not be allowed to vote, if their dirty laundry was made public. Restoring their right to vote should be the first step back to leading a free life.

that's why you are trying to keep them disenfranchised. if you thought for a minute there were more thugs than dems in that pack, it would have been a race to see who could get them back on the rolls first.

that exist only because of our country's irrational and unjust "War on Drugs," which is really a war on poor people, and especially on minorities. ALso, many felons are not even guilty, but were railroaded into the system by DAs who vastly overcharged them in order to force them to plead guilty to some of the charges so that they would spend "a few years" in prison rather than the rest of their lives, which would have been a likely outcome if they faced a trial with the entirely inadequate representation available to poor people in our (in)justice system.

So many of our country's prisoners are "felons" because they were caught with a small amount of weed for personal use (i.e., not even dealing).

A dear friend of mine almost ended up a felon in his twenties because of that, but since he is white and his parents are relatively affluent, he was able to plead down from a felony to a misdemeanor, so he didn't have to serve years in prison or have a felony conviction on his record to ruin the rest of his life. He ended up as a successful professional because he didn't have a felony/prison record.

I don't think people who have been swept up and into prison simply because of our draconian drug laws should be called criminals at all, and certainly they should not be deprived of their freedom or of any chance for a decent life simply because they have smoked weed.

Come here and try to keep me from voting.

Nothing is nastier than a repuke conservative. Definitely a slap in their ugly spiteful faces!

to offer an across the board right to vote.

That's gonna frustrate the punitive, arm-chair jurists among us who unfailingly and absolutely knows exactly what everyone deserves and does not deserve.