disfranchises
Removes voting privileges
Disfranchises means deprives of the right to vote or of other rights of citizenship.
The term extends to any removal of privilege or power: The new policy effectively disfranchises rural communities from decision-making.
Third-person singular present tense of disfranchise, which is interchangeable with disenfranchise.
Right to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- electorateEligible voting body
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- voter suppressionTactics discouraging ballot access
registration · precinct · turnout · electoral · absentee · poll tax · literacy test · voter ID
Treat as insignificant
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- alienateCause emotional distance
- disqualifyDeclare unfit to compete
- barDrinking establishment
deny · exclude · restrict · prohibit · ineligible · barred · stripped · revoke
Manipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
- partisanshipLoyalty to one faction
- oligarchyRule by few
- autocracyRule by one
plutocracy · voiceless · unrepresented · constituency · lobbying · corruption · malapportionment · underrepresentation
Forcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- repressionUnconscious blocking of thoughts
authoritarianism · despotism · tyranny · enslavement · injustice · disinherit · dispossess · deprive
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- electorateEligible voting body
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
voter suppression · registration · precinct · turnout · electoral · absentee · poll tax · literacy test · voter ID · voting rights
marginalize
Treat as insignificant
- ostracizeExclude from a group
- alienateCause emotional distance
- disqualifyDeclare unfit to compete
bar · deny · exclude · restrict · prohibit · ineligible · barred · stripped · revoke · invalidate
gerrymandering
Manipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- redistrictingRedrawing electoral boundaries
- partisanshipLoyalty to one faction
- oligarchyRule by few
autocracy · plutocracy · voiceless · unrepresented · constituency · lobbying · corruption · malapportionment · underrepresentation
subjugation
Forcing into submission
- dominationSupreme authority held
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
repression · authoritarianism · despotism · tyranny · enslavement · injustice · disinherit · dispossess · deprive · colonialism
disfranchisesenfranchises
Grants voting rights
empowers · includes · liberates · represents · amplifies
disfranchise, disfranchised, disfranchising, disfranchisement