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 Voting Rights for Ex-Felons
 
    YOU MIGHT NOT expect that Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) would have attracted controversy with his modest efforts to restore voting rights to ex-felons. More than 200,000 former offenders are disenfranchised in the commonwealth, where ex-felons are barred from voting for life unless the governor intervenes. Mr. Warner has restored the right to vote of only about 1,900 of them. Yet that has been enough for some Republicans in the General Assembly to cry foul. Last week  Del. Bradley P. Marrs (R-Richmond) wrote a letter complaining that he was "very disturbed to learn of the breakneck pace" at which the governor is granting petitions and warned the governor not to make restoration automatic. "I believe the General Assembly would look askance at any efforts to bypass its policy-making authority on this point," he wrote.
 
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