Disenfranchisement in a sentence

Congress created Extension to address exclusively rural agricultural issues magnified by war and disenfranchisement.

Fusaro said it would be disenfranchisement if the board does not take the time to check if any of these voters — through no fault of their own — failed to cast another ballot.

It is an alarming example of how some Nigerians support disenfranchisement of non-indigenes in Lagos.

Many migrants face disenfranchisement due to their inability to travel to polling stations where they are registered as voters, as required by law.

The UK government introduced laws that stripped rights of asylum seekers and other vulnerable people, encouraged voter disenfranchisement, limited judicial oversight of government actions, and placed new restrictions on the right to peaceful protest.

His ability to articulate the pain of state oppression and neglect, manifest in the Madesh’s political disenfranchisement and economic despair, won him legions of supporters, and in 2006 Raut founded the Alliance for Independent Madhesh (AIM).

Independents (46%) pointed to illegal voting, although some (21%) also pointed to disenfranchisement.

The second source of discontent, which brought thousands of ordinary citizens to the streets, was a deep-seated sense of economic and political disenfranchisement.

Using this understanding of disenfranchisement, college students are one of the more disenfranchised populations in the United States.

World War II’s legacy and the subsequent U.S. occupation – which lasted until 1972 – left lasting marks in Okinawa, fostering a sense of disenfranchisement within Japan’s political landscape.

A crucial element of the sense of disenfranchisement described by Hahl and his colleagues is the anger and outrage of those who believe that their interests are not represented by the political establishment.

And their disenfranchisement could swing key states to Trump.

At some point invalidation and distortion become disenfranchisement.

But until D.C., efforts to altogether abolish felony disenfranchisement have not been successful, despite proposals in a few state legislatures and Democratic primary candidates for the first time last year.

Decades of disenfranchisement are at the heart of the uneasy choice facing Black voters, one of the Democratic Party’s most important voting groups.

Decades of racism and voter disenfranchisement are at the heart of the uneasy choice facing Black voters.

Disenfranchisement is what happens when you chose to be a sex worker, or an immigrant, or other such outsider.

Fair Fight Action has an active lawsuit against the state of Georgia that alleges widespread voting problems that resulted in the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters in the state, particularly those of color, in the 2018 elections.

Hogan also called on the elections board to detail how many polling places will be open in each county, writing that consolidating most of a county’s polling places could lead to voter disenfranchisement.

In addition, reversing this trend of voter suppression and disenfranchisement needs to be the cornerstone of any strategy to improve our system of elections.