disenfranchise
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That’s the way to stick it to people who want to disenfranchise you: to actually vote.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Opposition MPs have criticised the delay, saying it would potentially disenfranchise millions of voters.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
"I will continue to make sure that the more than 65,000 voters who Griffin seeks to disenfranchise have their voices heard. No matter how long it takes, I will not stop doing what is right."
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2025
“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 John Dewey
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
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
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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Foundation to ‘bring hope and strength to young adults ages 14-24 in underserved and disenfranchised communities.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Director Sue Davison, a specialist teacher with 30 years' experience in schools, said the rise of toxic masculinity among social media influencers had a serious impact on "disenfranchised boys".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
According to Jay, infant loss results in a form of disenfranchised grief.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 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
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
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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
"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
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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