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disenfranchise

[dis-en-fran-chahyz] / ˌdɪs ɛnˈfræn tʃaɪz /


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

From BBC Jan. 24, 2026

Voting rights advocates warned the move could disenfranchise eligible voters.

From Salon Jan. 5, 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

He is wholly at the mercy of the factor, who usually holds all the highest offices on the estate, and has the power, as at Barra, to disenfranchise an entire island.

From Our Journey to the Hebrides by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

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

That’s just a misdemeanor, but it still disenfranchises Drouin.

From Seattle Times Apr. 25, 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

Unlike deaths with associated rituals, road maps, and standards, those that are disenfranchised are complex, underacknowledged, and often isolating.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

Demographics have also shifted, with disenfranchised millennial and zillennials making up a greater share of the voter base, and many of their parents seeing the crisis touch their loved ones for the first time.

From BBC May 12, 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

There was still no specific mention of African American women, who, along with African American men, would continue to be disenfranchised by state laws, especially in the South.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

Of the nearly 29,000 Mississippians convicted of disenfranchising offenses who had completed their sentences from 1994 to 2017, 58% were Black, he said.

From Reuters Sep. 28, 2023

Critics characterize such requirements as an overreaction that could end up disenfranchising eligible voters.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2023

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

From Philistia by Grant Allen




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