disfranchise

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It added that a significant number of voters were disfranchised because polling stations did not open, adding that even those people who were able to vote did so "in a context of fear and anxiety".

From BBC

“It’s really going to create more division, more hardship, more hate, more civil unrest. It’s going to disfranchise thousands and thousands of people who voted.”

From Fox News

Two-fifths of Virginians were enslaved, and Virginia’s conservative post-revolutionary constitution — to Jefferson’s dismay — disfranchised a third of the state’s white males.

From Washington Post

Voters on Tuesday adopted a number of measures to expand the vote to those currently disfranchised.

From The Guardian

It is extremely easy to make jokes about marginalized/disfranchised groups ... but that makes you a lazy writer.

From Salon