disenfranchise
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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
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
But Cicero argues that the legal effect of the Senatus consultum ultimum was to disenfranchise Lentulus and his associates, and to place them in the position of outlaws. 12-13 Non caruerunt .
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.