disfranchise

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Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2016

Whom he can and will support Senator Johnson did not say but few of his followers expected him to disfranchise himself election day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or if a State should prescribe as a qualification for the ballot such an ownership of property, real or personal, as would disfranchise the great body of her people, could not Congress most undoubtedly interfere?

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio