Virginia's Democratic Governor Tim Kaine is expediting the process to restore the voting rights of convicted felons before the November election, reports Tim Craig of AP.

Query for law-abiding people: The fact that the Democratic Party expects the criminal vote to go overwhelmingly for Obama tells us ...? This is left as an exercise for the reader, as my old physics textbooks said.

"Kent Willis, executive director of the Virginia branch of the ACLU, and other activists say the campaign to register more felons is a civil rights issue, not a political one." Right. And pigs can fly and the moon is made of green cheese.