disfranchising love

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  • verb Present participle of disfranchise.

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  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • These laws come in several different forms—either requiring citizens to present photo identification or proof of citizenship in order to vote, making it more difficult to register or conduct registration drives prior to elections, reducing the opportunity for early voting or disfranchising more citizens with past criminal convictions.

    Deborah J. Vagins: Protecting the Right to Vote: A Moral Imperative Deborah J. Vagins 2011

  • When a Latino Republican operative, Robert de Posada, thinks he can get away with running campaign ads in Spanish and English urging Latinos to "send a message" to the Democrats by disfranchising themselves, servitude to the Republicans' electoral interests became an "oppositional" expression of "protest."

    Joseph A. Palermo: What "Center?" Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • If the DNC seats their delegates "as is" they are disfranchising over 70% of people who didn't vote because Michigan officials made it clear that the votes would not count.

    Democrats' late night session falls short on MI, FL delegations 2008

  • When a Latino Republican operative, Robert de Posada, thinks he can get away with running campaign ads in Spanish and English urging Latinos to "send a message" to the Democrats by disfranchising themselves, servitude to the Republicans' electoral interests became an "oppositional" expression of "protest."

    Joseph A. Palermo: What "Center?" Joseph A. Palermo 2010

  • These Despots are totally dedicated to the subjugation, exploitation and disfranchising of their own citizens and abhor the messages of freedoms emanating from the emerging Middle East Democracies.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

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