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in 2016, the Dem prosecutors of Virginia's Arlington & Fairfax signed on to a lawsuit against @TerryMcAuliffe's order restoring voting rights

this Tuesday, they face primary challengers, who're asking why any citizen shld be disenfranchised

my primer: appealpolitics.org/2019/virginia-…
When the Supreme Court struck down @TerryMcAuliffe 's executive order over GOP lawmakers' lawsuit (with prosecutors' supporting brief), the then-governor then wrote in a statement that the court "has placed Virginia as an outlier in the struggle for civil & human rights."
McAuliffe then signed orders individually restoring rights of 173K people post-sentences. I asked the 2 challengers whether they'd back going even further to abolish disenfranchisement

@parisa4justice: yes (left)
@SteveDescano: never heard a good reason to disenfranchsie (right)
those screengrabs are from interviews
with Tafti: appealpolitics.org/2019/interview…
with Descano: appealpolitics.org/2019/interview…

Stamos, Arlington incumbent, told me a reason she'd joined lawsuit was that rights of people on probation & others were being (mistakenly) restored. Very diff answer.
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let's chat about mass incarceration & local elections

@jduffyrice, in 2016: "If you want to fix mass incarceration but don’t know name of your local DA—or when the primary is, or who is opposing them – you are making biggest mistake"

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& if in PA, you may be voting for a DA in 4 days! Moment to find out: appealpolitics.org/2019/stage-is-…
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We know from Boston or St Louis just this year how much change such contrasts can affect. appealpolitics.org/2019/pittsburg…
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DeSantis will sign a bill that will strip hundreds of thousands of Floridians of the right to vote, & to have a say on his own reelection bid in 2022.

If this was happening outside the U.S., we'd cover it very differently, & stop pretending this is anything like a democracy.
seriously, let's pause on this a moment. The poll tax, the massive exclusion are bad enough. But also remember these are people in power who are literally excluding *hundreds of thousands of people* from having any say on whether they get to remain in power.
"The franchise of millions is subjected to the capricious whims of a few public officials," I wrote in October before the Amendment 4 vote. I began that article with the visceral absurdity of what Rick Scott's cabinet was up to. And here we are again. nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
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