vote suppression
Blocking citizen participation
Vote suppression refers to efforts that discourage or prevent eligible voters from casting ballots.
Tactics include strict ID requirements, reduced polling locations, purging voter rolls, and limiting early voting.
The term carries political charge—one side's "election integrity" measure is often the other's vote suppression: Critics called the new law blatant vote suppression.
- gerrymanderingManipulating electoral boundaries strategically
- long linesExtended waiting formations
- language barriersCommunication blocks between tongues
- misinformation campaignsOrganized spreading of falsehoods
- Election DayScheduled voting occasion
civic duty · mail-in ballots · Jim Crow · disenfranchisement · political polarization · intimidation
- electionsballot, ballots, candidates, polls, election day
- election fraudelection fraud, ballot stuffing, ballot tampering, rigged elections, rigged election
- political dysfunctionmisrule, tyranny, authoritarianism, dictatorship, despotism
- suppressioninhibition, restraint, silencing, muzzling, stifling
vote suppressionvoter access
Ability to participate electorally
universal suffrage · voter registration drives · voter mobilization · get-out-the-vote · mail-in voting
vote suppressioncivic engagement
Active citizenship in community
democratic participation · participatory democracy · Voting Rights Act · grassroots mobilization · voter education
vote, votes, voted, voting, voter, voters, votary, votive, devote