PHILADELPHIA — Rev. Jesse Jackson Tuesday laid out an expansive proposal to register millions of new voters, especially in the South, and demanded that governors grant felons the right to vote because most will choose Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"We can literally turn those red states blue and purple," he said if felons, the poor and students are signed up to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
Referring to felons, he said, "most of those folks are eligible to vote." In states like Virginia, for example, the governor can individually grant felons a vote. A recent plan by Gov. Terry McAuliffe to grant hundreds of thousands of felons a vote enmass was killed by a court.
Jackson, twice a presidential candidate in the 1980s said the felon vote is a priority for Democrats because most vote for liberals, a claim backed up by recent polling.
Jesse Jackson: 'Almost all' convicts vote Democratic, wants more registered
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