Disenfranchise in a sentence

Addressing newsmen in Akure, the state secretary of the party, Abiodun Agbaje, alleged that it ” was a deliberate act to disenfranchise our supporters.

As Stefanos Bibas, a Trump-appointed judge on the Third Circuit, after rejecting the Trump campaign’s effort to disenfranchise millions of Pennsylvania’s voters: “Free, fair elections are the lifeblood of our democracy.

But others say they would disenfranchise the local fishermen, who may have smaller boats and may not be able to buy into a more competitive fishery.

It is true that most Democrats have been against stricter voter-ID laws in the past, but on grounds that these laws could disenfranchise voters who may not have access to necessary identification — not in order to illegally obtain votes.

The anti-poverty charity warns that by adding more bureaucratic hurdles and costs to people who already face inequalities, the barrier will disenfranchise many low-income voters.

Second, on a close call where the constitutional text is ambiguous, a ruling that disqualified Trump would arguably disenfranchise tens of millions of voters.

This will not only save costs; it will also eliminate the issues around the collection of PVCs and the diabolical practice of buying up the cards from voters in order to disenfranchise them.

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.

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

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

And now they are using the ECZ to try and play games to try and disenfranchise Zambians.” says Rev Njombo.

Breaking the normal procedure, Donald Trump spoke from the White House on election night and declared that “millions and millions” of Americans had voted for him but his opponents were trying to disenfranchise them.

In a speech later at the White House early Wednesday, Trump went on to claim that his opponents were trying to disenfranchise his supporters and said: “This is a fraud on the American public.

Millions and millions of people voted for us tonight and a very sad group of people is trying to disenfranchise that group of people, and we won’t stand for it.

On this occasion, the NDC accused the Electoral Commission and NPP of attempting to disenfranchise its supporters by deciding to accept only passports or National ID cards as proof of citizenship.

They’re willing to gerrymander and disenfranchise voters — they absolutely don’t want people to go out and vote.

Was Justice Singh supposed to bow to the PPP’s demands and take action to disenfranchise thousands of eligible Guyanese voters, merely because their address may have changed!

Psssst, it did exactly as it was supposed to do, which was make it super easy to harass, imprison, and disenfranchise the type of people who were most likely to vote against Nixon.

The General Secretary said that this could specifically disenfranchise persons in certain hinterland communities, which are strongholds of the PPP.

The Republican game plan to disenfranchise Democratic voters by any means necessary has both unapologetically and unabashedly shown the American public the art of what a “power grab” really looks like.