Convicted pedophiles, wanted sex offenders, and other low-lives can now vote in Virginia after the governor restored the rights of 200,000 felons in April.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s administration won’t release a list of names for the 206,000 felons whose voting rights he restored April 22, but a recent investigation by the Richmond Times-Dispatch reveals the move benefited some of society’s most detested.

The news site used court records, police reports, news stories and the state’s sex offender registry to identify offenders and search through a database of the criminals McAuliffe approved to vote that’s maintained by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.

The news site ran about 80 names in its check, and found several that raised eyebrows.

From the Times-Dispatch:

Vashawn L. Gray, 30, has a 2004 conviction in Henrico County for aggravated sexual battery of a minor, according to the state registry, and five convictions in Richmond for failing to register as a violent sex offender.

Gray’s probation officer filed a major violation report in 2014 saying Gray’s “whereabouts are unknown.” The sex offender registry lists him as wanted, but he showed up on McAuliffe’s list as having regained the right to vote, serve on a jury, hold public office and notarize documents.

The second wanted sex offender on the restoration list was locked up in New York on the day of McAuliffe’s order.

James A. Hyams, 42, who has a 2000 conviction in Kentucky for rape of a minor, violated his probation in late 2012 after he pleaded guilty to grand larceny for stealing a wallet at a Shockoe Bottom restaurant.

Hyams left Virginia without permission shortly thereafter. He was released from custody in New York on June 30.

The news site contacted the governor’s office to point out who his executive order is benefiting, and McAuliffe spokesman Brian Coy said “it was just basically an oversight.”

The restoration of voting rights is supposed to only apply to felons who have resolved their cases completely, he said.

“When you’re dealing with a list of 200,000-plus people, as with any big data list, there’s going to be a certain error rate. As we have become aware of folks who have appeared on the list in error, we’re taking them off,” Coy told Politico.

Gray and Hyams were marked “ineligible” on the state database after the Times-Dispatch inquired.

As were two other serious criminals the news site found on the state database: Brandon Brown, a 23-year-old facing murder and arson charges for allegedly trapping a woman behind a door with a flaming mattress; and 25-year-oild Tyquane Lynch, who allegedly pulled a gun on a state trooper.

Other groups have also found disturbing characters on the governor’s database and argue his executive order was more about courting new, mostly democratic, voters than doing what’s right.

According to Politico:

A group of GOP lawmakers and 43 commonwealth attorneys with various political affiliations claim there are numerous errors in the list because of its broad scope. Some of the attorneys, through vetting specific felons in their personal databases, have discovered that rights were accidentally restored to 132 sex offenders who are still institutionalized; to a man judged to be mentally incompetent who is sitting in a psychiatric ward; and to a man who was deported. The attorneys filed a brief with these findings to the Virginia Supreme court to support a lawsuit introduced by GOP members and voters in May, including Senate Majority Leader Tommy Norment.

Norment argued that McAuliffe’s order is unconstitutional and a “political sleight of hand” that primarily sought political gain without properly considering the consequences of a blanket restoration.”

A second lawsuit by Judicial Watch moving through lower courts argues the governor overstepped his authority with his recent executive order, the news site reports.