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It is the sum of all hopes and all fears given birth by black enfranchisement.
CNN: Historic milestone for African-American voters in 2012
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Yet the rise of Shia power in Iraq may start to encourage demands for greater enfranchisement.
ECONOMIST: The Arab neighbours
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After the war, an electoral reform conference recommended a limited measure of women's enfranchisement.
BBC: Women in parliament
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Greeks slogged to polling stations yesterday to exercise their rights of enfranchisement.
FORBES: Greek Election: Does It Matter?
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It is also absolutely the case that the full enfranchisement of Latin American Catholics will necessarily be facilitated by the election of Pope Francis.
FORBES: An Argentine Pope Will Help In Difficult Task Of Reconciliation Within The Church
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Where women won the vote before national enfranchisement, politicians there quickly began behaving differently in particular, devoting about 35% more money to new public health programs.
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Like those who opposed Jim Crow, apartheid or the enfranchisement of women, when each was controversial, your support for gay marriage will surely end up on the right side of history.
ECONOMIST: Gay marriage, debated
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The democratization of cultural debate about what constitutes acceptable practice and what ought to change depends on the economic dignity and financial enfranchisement of ordinary people in as many cultural communities as possible.
UNESCO: Arjun Appadurai - Cultural rights as an enabling environment for cultural diversity | Echoing voices
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But Lib Dem peer and Justice Minister Lord McNally said he believed that it "could be possible to devise a system of enfranchisement of some prisoners that could play a useful part in a rehabilitation process".
BBC: MPs can force UK to keep ban on prisoner votes - minister
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The first openly gay man to be elected to public office, Milk left a legacy of determined enfranchisement that lives on in the more than 600 openly gay or lesbian elected officials serving now in North America.
NPR: James Franco, From 'Freaks' To 'Milk'
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Its main argument is that, as a share of the voting population, the required number of signatures has dropped from 10% back in 1848 to 2.2% today, thanks to the enfranchisement of women at federal level, which took place only in 1971, and a swelling population.
ECONOMIST: Swiss people power