enfranchise
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Pressure began building to enfranchise women voters in the early 20th century, notably in the southeastern state of Yucatan, said Lorenzo Meyer, a historian at the Colegio de Mexico.
From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023
“We have such an engaged electorate here in D.C., and it’s very important that we enfranchise all eligible voters.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
Historically, the practice has been used to enfranchise voters who lack access to polls or drop boxes.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2022
Until Eric Foner’s masterwork “Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877” appeared in 1988, many historians — and most Americans — saw the post-Civil War efforts to enfranchise and empower blacks as a failed experiment at best.
From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2020
“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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