disfranchising
Stripping civic participation
Disfranchising is depriving someone of rights, especially voting rights.
The word appears in discussions of policies that restrict ballot access: Voter ID laws risk disfranchising eligible citizens.
More broadly, disfranchising can mean excluding from participation or membership in any system: The new rules ended up disfranchising longtime members.
Right to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- voter suppressionTactics discouraging ballot access
- registrationFormal recording of participation
electoral roll · poll tax · literacy test · voter ID · residency requirement · precinct · absentee · gerrymandering
Being barred from participation
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- voicelessnessLack of spoken sound
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
- alienationState of being isolated
ostracism · invisibility · underrepresentation · second-class citizen · disinheritance · sidelining · disempowerment · subjugation
Official enactment of statutes
- democracyRule by the people
- autocracyRule by one
- oligarchyRule by few
- representationDepiction or likeness
senate · parliament · partisanship · lobbying · electorate · incumbency · constituency · civic participation
suffrage
Right to cast ballots
- ballotVoting document
- pollingSystematic opinion gathering
- voter suppressionTactics discouraging ballot access
registration · electoral roll · poll tax · literacy test · voter ID · residency requirement · precinct · absentee · gerrymandering · redistricting
exclusion
Being barred from participation
- silencingStopping noise or dissent
- voicelessnessLack of spoken sound
- powerlessnessInability to affect outcomes
alienation · ostracism · invisibility · underrepresentation · second-class citizen · disinheritance · sidelining · disempowerment · subjugation · oppression
legislation
Official enactment of statutes
representation · senate · parliament · partisanship · lobbying · electorate · incumbency · constituency · civic participation · citizenship
disfranchisingenfranchising
Granting voting rights
empowering · enfranchisement · including · liberating · enabling
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