disenfranchise

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

The irony, critics pointed out, was that Karamo’s proposal would disenfranchise far more people than it empowered.

From Salon ● May 22, 2024

“That exhibit, in and of itself, is no reason to strip the voters of Bridgeport of their rights and disenfranchise them.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

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 Dewey, John

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

Randall Avila, executive director of the Orange County GOP, said the measure disenfranchises Latino GOP voters like himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2025

This disenfranchises those who have paid for their crime.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023

Hobbs said he opposed the practice because “it disenfranchises communities and leaves us vulnerable to misinformation,” but that he would honor voters’ decision if they were to choose ranked choice voting in the future.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

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

According to Jay, infant loss results in a form of disenfranchised grief.

From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026

Congress’s aim was to prevent minorities from being disenfranchised.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025

In order to vote, you had to be there in person, so those citizens who lived outside town were also, effectively, disenfranchised.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

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 the last fifty years, a national consensus has emerged among the state legislatures against permanently disenfranchising those who have satisfied their judicially imposed sentences and thus repaid their debts to society," he wrote.

From Reuters ● Aug. 4, 2023

“How do we move forward on something like this without, in some regard, disenfranchising a portion of our community? That’s the challenge,” he said during Tuesday’s meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2022

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

From Philistia by Allen, Grant