disenfranchise
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That’s the way to stick it to people who want to disenfranchise you: to actually vote.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Opposition MPs have criticised the delay, saying it would potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
In recent decades, good-government advocates have fought to create districts that are logical and geographically compact and do not disenfranchise minority voters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2025
But such a move, Riggs and other critics have previously argued, would unfairly disenfranchise uniformed service members.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2025
Not only this, but he proposed to the provincial assembly a measure to disenfranchise all persons who have concubines.
From China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference by John Dewey
Yates, from Crackington Haven, said she wanted the bank to "reconsider their policy" as she believed it "disenfranchises the rural population".
From BBC ● May 14, 2026
Circuit Court of Appeals panel ordered the Mississippi secretary of state to stop enforcing a provision in the state constitution that disenfranchises people convicted of specific crimes, including murder, forgery and bigamy.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
This disenfranchises those who have paid for their crime.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
Raman and Krekorian have sharply criticized the map, saying it disenfranchises voters and needs to be reworked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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But for everyone who feels empowered by portals, others feel frustrated and disenfranchised by the technology, the information overload or the lack of face-to-face interaction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
That means that the most vulnerable voters who depend on vote by mail around the country would have been disenfranchised, including core Republican constituencies.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
"We need to make sure that their right is not disenfranchised as well," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
Such institutions were created to provide higher education to disenfranchised African Americans, who were otherwise prohibited from attending most colleges.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
She demanded that Greeley consider how he would feel if he were disenfranchised.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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States already ensure the vote is safe without disenfranchising vulnerable groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
Some voters confronted school staff and accused them of disenfranchising voters.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2024
It was not disenfranchising them, which is generous.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2024
The landmark 1965 law followed the Civil Rights Act and outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as literacy tests that were aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
Perhaps he might be able to undertake this Great Widgerly disenfranchising case.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
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