disenfranchise

Verb

Meaning

To disfranchise; to deprive of the rights of a citizen.

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Investors and transnational enterprises have invented new rules to suit their needs, rules that impinge on the regulatory space of States and disenfranchise the public. Alfred de Zayas

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. Chris Bell

A few hours later, in a rambling, middle-of-the-night speech from the East Room of the White House, Mr. Trump accused “a very sad group of people” of trying to “disenfranchise” those who had voted for him. Source: Internet

AG says their “baseless attacks" undermine democracy and employ “Jim Crow strategy” to disenfranchise voters. Source: Internet

"Alarmingly, across the nation, we see the devastating effects of the President's campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters," she wrote in a letter to her caucus on Sunday. Source: Internet

And don’t intervene even if those decisions are likely to disenfranchise voters. Source: Internet

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