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 Virginia’s governor said on Monday that he had signed papers restoring the voting rights of nearly 13,000 ex-felons, accomplishing on a case-by-case basis what the state’s Supreme Court last month had barred him from doing with a single executive order. 
 
 Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat, cast the move as a civil rights victory in a state whose constitutional ban on voting by ex-felons has disenfranchised roughly one in five African-Americans. In a post on Twitter, the governor said, “We will continue to fight to ensure that our fellow citizens are not marginalized forever.” 
 
 State Republicans had called Mr. McAuliffe’s effort to restore voting rights a political plot to put more Democrats on the voting rolls. On Monday, Donald J. Trump, campaigning in Fredericksburg, Va., accused Mr. McAuliffe of “getting thousands of violent felons to the voting booth in an effort to cancel out the votes of both law enforcement and crime victims.” 
 
 “They are letting people vote in your Virginia election that should not be allowed to vote,” Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, said.
– Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's autopen has had a busy month. The Democrat announced Monday that he has signed papers restoring voting rights to 13,000 former felons, and he's working on restoring rights to up to 193,000 more, reports the Virginian-Pilot. McAuliffe signed an order in April restoring voting rights to 206,000 nonviolent and violent felons. After the Virginia Supreme Court struck the order down last month, McAuliffe vowed to restore rights case by case—starting with the 13,000 who had already registered to vote. The process uses "the clear authority the governor possesses to use his own discretion to restore rights of people who have served their time," he said Monday. The move was denounced by Republicans who saw it as an effort to get more Democratic voters on the rolls in time for November. Donald Trump told a rally in Virginia Monday that the governor is "getting thousands of violent felons to the voting booth in an effort to cancel out the votes of both law enforcement and crime victims," reports the New York Times, which notes that Virginia is one of just four states to permanently strip felons of voting rights. A McAuliffe aide tells NBC News that the governor hopes to "restore as many Virginians' rights as expeditiously as possible," though he can't say how many more cases will have been dealt with by the Oct. 17 deadline for registering to vote.