Post by Logan on Jun 25, 2016 23:56:03 GMT -6
McAuliffe administration prepped activists for felon voting order that surprised election officials
When Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that he was restoring the political rights of about 206,000 felons, it came as no surprise to New Virginia Majority, which had fliers already printed encouraging would-be voters to register immediately.
The progressive activist group got an official invite days ahead of the April 22 news conference, and Tram Nguyen, the group’s co-executive director, had more than three weeks’ notice that the order was coming.
“Now that I’m home and have let the news sink in, I’m literally sitting here crying,” Nguyen wrote in a March 30 email to Secretary of the Commonwealth Kelly Thomasson, then a deputy in the office, after the two met earlier in the day.
“We’ve been asking for this since the Kaine administration. What this administration is doing is a game changer in so many ways — in particular, for the lives that you’re touching. THANK YOU!”
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_c7c9f650-9834-5a42-b0d9-d684c0f2789a.html
When Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced that he was restoring the political rights of about 206,000 felons, it came as no surprise to New Virginia Majority, which had fliers already printed encouraging would-be voters to register immediately.
The progressive activist group got an official invite days ahead of the April 22 news conference, and Tram Nguyen, the group’s co-executive director, had more than three weeks’ notice that the order was coming.
“Now that I’m home and have let the news sink in, I’m literally sitting here crying,” Nguyen wrote in a March 30 email to Secretary of the Commonwealth Kelly Thomasson, then a deputy in the office, after the two met earlier in the day.
“We’ve been asking for this since the Kaine administration. What this administration is doing is a game changer in so many ways — in particular, for the lives that you’re touching. THANK YOU!”
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/article_c7c9f650-9834-5a42-b0d9-d684c0f2789a.html