disenfranchise
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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
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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
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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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