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
The irony, critics pointed out, was that Karamo’s proposal would disenfranchise far more people than it empowered.
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
“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
This disenfranchises those who have paid for their crime.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023
Hobbs said he opposed the practice because “it disenfranchises communities and leaves us vulnerable to misinformation,” but that he would honor voters’ decision if they were to choose ranked choice voting in the future.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 2022
Raman and Krekorian have sharply criticized the map, saying it disenfranchises voters and needs to be reworked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
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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"We need to make sure that their right is not disenfranchised as well," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
According to Jay, infant loss results in a form of disenfranchised grief.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
Demographics have also shifted, with disenfranchised millennial and zillennials making up a greater share of the voter base, and many of their parents seeing the crisis touch their loved ones for the first time.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
“Hip-hop has become the global language of resistance — the musical form through which the dispossessed and disenfranchised articulate grievance and assert dignity,” Singh said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
She demanded that Greeley consider how he would feel if he were disenfranchised.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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States already ensure the vote is safe without disenfranchising vulnerable groups.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025
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
Perhaps he might be able to undertake this Great Widgerly disenfranchising case.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
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