PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A Portsmouth woman with a felony record may soon be able to vote again, along with thousands of other Virginians. She called Tuesday a historic day, after Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced new reforms to the restoration of rights process.
Ellen Tomiye said she went to prison 15 years ago for writing less than $4,000 in bad checks. “You know, it’s so easy to do wrong. It’s hard to get out of it once you do it … and I knew I was wrong,” she said.
Tomiye said she served almost three years in prison. “I thought that coming out I would be able to just go ahead on and just pick up where I left off … but no,” she said.
Tomiye said she paid her restitution, but has $24,000 in court costs that, according to her payment plan, won’t be cleared until 2047. That meant she couldn’t vote until 2047, she said. Last month, Tomiye talked about it to Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney.
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6 comments:
More commie leftards to vote since most likely they are already on government enemas
Yeah Virginia really loving that democratic governor uh?? At least they have term limits.
This isn't restoration of rights, this is more votes for the liberal left wingnuts.
This begs the question! Will she need a special ID? If so, then why is this different from non criminal record voter ID?
I think this would be the litmus test on voter ID. It's time that it's done.
Anonymous said...
Yeah Virginia really loving that democratic governor uh?? At least they have term limits.
June 24, 2015 at 8:53 PM
One term isn't really enough time to do the job. Their Lt. Gov is also ran separately which may not always work for the party.
you can't blame felons for what YOU people voted into office. geesh. some of you are really dense
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