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disenfranchise

verb as in disempower

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The abrupt shift left Harvey resentful and disenfranchised.

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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.

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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.

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Proposition 50 opponents cried foul, saying they were disenfranchised.

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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.

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