disenfranchise

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

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

“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

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

Another major effort to disenfranchise Black Americans came during their next major push to achieve political, social and economic equality: the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

From Salon • May 17, 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