disenfranchise

Opposition MPs have criticised the delay, saying it would potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026

In a letter to Chairman Ray Buckley, they also called the primary “detrimental” and said “non-compliant processes can disenfranchise and confuse voters.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 8, 2024

The lists could find their way into the hands of malicious actors and individual efforts to inspect the rolls could disenfranchise voters through intimidation or canceled registrations, state election officials and privacy advocates warned.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

“Suspending him would further disenfranchise the district’s constituents.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023

After that, I shouldn't be at all surprised if the aristocrats didn't engineer a revolution, especially if we disenfranchise them.—Susan, you have a new hat on.

From Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

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

Certain voters, members of communities that have been disenfranchised before, may now be less confident that their vote will count.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

Hungary said the law disenfranchised tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians, who live mostly in Ukraine's westernmost region of Transcarpathia -- part of the former Kingdom of Hungary until the end of World War I.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

“Hip-hop has become the global language of resistance — the musical form through which the dispossessed and disenfranchised articulate grievance and assert dignity,” Singh said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

Shortly after the court announcement, Crockett took to the stage at her election party and said that voters in her city of Dallas were being disenfranchised.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

His years as a community organizer had shown him how many people felt unheard and disenfranchised within our democracy.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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

In her dissent, Jones wrote that when the Supreme Court ruled that the Equal Protection Clause does not bar states from permanently disenfranchising felons, justices said people should seek change through state legislatures.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

Perhaps he might be able to undertake this Great Widgerly disenfranchising case.

From Philistia by Grant Allen