disenfranchise

Example Sentences

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The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.

From Los Angeles Times

According to legal experts, there is no viable federal legal challenge against the new map on the basis that they disenfranchise a large chunk of California Republicans.

From Los Angeles Times

He was talking straight to his actual voters and, beyond them, to an entire disenfranchised and alienated generation that believes, or rather knows, that power structure has failed them entirely.

From Salon

Proposition 50 opponents cried foul, saying they were disenfranchised.

From Los Angeles Times

What is certain is that Proposition 50 will in effect disenfranchise millions of California Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who already feel overlooked and irrelevant to the workings of their home state.

From Los Angeles Times