We also need to end the disenfranchisement of former prisoners who have served their time.
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If the party members keep their vote, woe betide the candidate who favoured their disenfranchisement.
If their disenfranchisement continues, though, the country could see a reprise of its 2005 suburban riots.
Americans have suffered their disenfranchisement largely because of a traditional, habitual respect for the U.S. Supreme Court.
The commission was created to study allegations of disenfranchisement and voting irregularities across the country, but specifically in Florida.
But South Carolina's law, like Indiana's and Georgia's, explicitly addresses potential disenfranchisement by offering state-issued IDs free of charge.
Its other theme is the third cause for unrest in Buckingham: the traditional disenfranchisement of voters in the speaker's constituency.
When instead he sided with his own supporters who took to the streets to oppose their disenfranchisement, Mousavi became a revolutionary.
Mr Bercow's friends, meanwhile, dismiss the disenfranchisement argument, saying that many constituents like the kudos of having the speaker as their MP.
We overcame threats from within and without -- from the specter of fascism abroad to the bitter injustice of disenfranchisement at home.
This massive disenfranchisement of urban voters of all races is helping income and class become larger political issues at the expense of race.
Pervasive discrimination leads to lack of access to basic public services, education and employment opportunities, political disenfranchisement, forced institutionalization and segregation, and poverty.
Moreover, the Voting Rights Act, originally intended to prevent the disenfranchisement of black voters in the South, makes it difficult to marginalise minority voters.
We need to end the disenfranchisement of residents of Washington, D.
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With population growth and urbanization continuing, disenfranchisement can only increase unless new seats are created, which would require the support of a two-thirds majority in parliament.
America's political traditions had never gained a solid foothold in the state, where the illiteracy and poverty of many whites and the disenfranchisement of blacks deterred true democracy.
The one thing we don't want happening is in a big election year, like '06, we do not want it to start off with massive disenfranchisement of African-Americans.
But the whole disenfranchisement charge is absurd in any case.
Ultimately, said Joshua Foust, a fellow at the American Security Project familiar with the region, Pakistan must address the broader sense of political disenfranchisement that originally fed the insurgency.
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While its influence on big-ticket issues in the region is declining, the U.S. has redoubled efforts to tackle their root causes, such as poverty, hunger and disenfranchisement of women.
They even want to impose a tax penalty on the parents of students who register to vote at their North Carolina college addresses, and pass the most restrictive felony disenfranchisement law in the country.
This amounts to post facto disenfranchisement of the Iraqi voters whose turnout of over 60 percent - in the face of threats by anti-democratic forces that voting would be deemed a capital offense - powerfully testified to their desire to exercise the right enjoyed by no others in the Mideast except Israelis: to have a real say in their government and future.
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