More than 10,000 Virginia felons still on the voting rolls

Another “anomaly” has shown up in Virginia’s electoral process. The problem currently under examination started more than a decade ago when the state moved to relax the rules making some felons ineligible to vote after having been convicted. Under those less strict rules, eligible felons could have their voting rights reinstated. There’s nothing wrong with that if that’s how the voters of Virginia want to handle it. But the new system contained what probably should have been a glaring oversight. There was no mechanism put in place to once again remove those people from the voter rolls if they went on to be convicted of another felony. A recent investigation revealed that this situation led to more than 10,500 felons who should have been ineligible remaining on the rolls and able to vote. (Virginia Mercury)Read More