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Congress’s aim was to prevent minorities from being disenfranchised by the likes of poll taxes.

Tribes say California voters years ago gave them the exclusive rights to host table games, which they use as a critically important source of revenue to support their historically disenfranchised communities.

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“Women are the most disenfranchised people in this business,” he told The Times in 1987.

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Some believe the territory's complex citizenship laws have inadvertently created a crucible of disenfranchised Haitian youngsters.

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The districts that would be eliminated are predominantly Black and brown, and these millions of voters would be effectively disenfranchised.

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