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“As Dad used to say, ‘A voteless people is a powerless people,’ and one of the most important steps that we can take is that short step to the ballot box.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023

Jennings Randolph, 39, Democrat, of Elkins, W.Va., is chairman of the House District Committee, source of all House legislation affecting the voteless District of Columbia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neither would it send a voteless, unequal delegate to the Mexico City conference.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite the new law, however, thousands of citizens abroad are going to remain voteless.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the thing that possessed Parker—the perception of the destructive significance of the repressed and balked instincts of the migratory worker, the unskilled, the casuals, the hoboes, the womanless, jobless, voteless men.

From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Parker, Cornelia Stratton