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Sean Gugerty of Tucson Arizona Visits Mt Lemon

Sean Gugerty of Tucson Arizona Visits Mt Lemon

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe will restore voting rights to more than 200,000 people with felony convictions on Friday, all but erasing a Jim Crow-era measure in the state constitutionaimed at suppressing black electoral power.

The New York Times has more details on the governor’s move:

Mr. McAuliffe, who took office in 2014 and campaigned to restore voting rights to felons, said that he viewed disenfranchisement as “a remnant of the poll tax” and that he had been “trying to figure out what more I can possibly do.” He has been working with his legal team for months to live up to his campaign promise. His action Friday will not apply to felons released in the future; the governor’s aides say Mr. McAuliffe intends to issue similar orders on a monthly basis to cover more people as they are released.

“People have served their time and done their probation,” Mr. McAuliffe said. “I want you back in society. I want you feeling good about yourself. I want you voting, getting a job, paying taxes. I’m not giving people their gun rights back and other things like that. I’m merely allowing you to feel good about yourself again, to feel like you are a member of society.”

Virginia’s state constitution bars people with felony convictions from casting a ballot “unless his civil rights have been restored by the Governor or other appropriate authority.” Although various forms of felon disenfranchisement have existed throughout American history, Virginia’s restriction was added in 1906 as part of a broader effort by state lawmakers to enshrine white supremacy and weaken black voting strength.

The United States has the largest prison population on Earth

The country has 5% of the world’s population, but nearly a quarter of all its prisoners

African-American men are 6 times more likely to be incarcerated than white men

And African-American men under 35 without a high school diploma are more likely to be imprisoned than employed in the labor market

Nearly 6 million former felons are denied their right to vote

That means 1 in 40 adults are disenfranchised and 1 in 13 African-Americans don’t have the voice at the ballot box

USA has more prisoners than CHINA

China has 4 times population of USA

 Unbelievable but true