To this native Illinoisan, it only seems fair

I see where New York's crazy left governor, Andrew Cuomo, is restoring voting rights to some 35,000 paroled felons by executive order.

I think it would be more appropriate to wait until after their paroles expired and their debt to society was completely off the books, but I'm not going to say that in principle restoring voting rights is wrong. But I do note that convicted felons are a heavily Democratic voting block- seriously- though that may change if the current administration in Washington remains in power long enough. So it may be a slick political move for Mario's kid.

Hey- why not? My home state, Illinois has pioneered advances in this area. Their former governors make their license plates!

It only seems fair that felons finally get their cut of the patronage pie. The role past and future felons have played in the history not only of Illinois and New York but of the nation richly deserves to be acknowledged.  What would the political history of either state- or many others- be without crooks?