Synonyms for disenfranchise
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1. disenfranchiseverb

   Synonyms:
   disfranchise

   Antonyms:
   enfranchise

2. disenfranchiseverb

   to deprive someone of a franchise, generally their right to vote

   Synonyms:
   disfranchise

   Antonyms:
   enfranchise

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1. disenfranchise, disfranchiseverb

   deprive of voting rights

   Synonyms:
   disfranchise

   Antonyms:
   enfranchise

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1. Marc Elias:

   We sued again when Wisconsin failed to hold special elections. If the GOP thinks they can disenfranchise voters by cutting early voting without a fight, they are wrong.

2. Donald Trump:

   All I can say is this, I don't know what's going to happen, but I will say this, you're going to have a lot of very unhappy people. And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people because if that happens, they're not voting and the Republicans lose.

3. Ben Wikler:

   Wisconsin's election offers a nightmare vision of what the whole country could see in the fall, a fight in which The Democrats ' struggle to balance democracy with public health, and the GOP remorselessly weaponizes courts, election laws, and coronavirus itself to disenfranchise the voters who stand in its way.

4. Charles Booker:

   It's been hard to vote in Kentucky, for a lot of us, for a long time. What we're seeing now is really a continuation of that, to have a county as big as Jefferson County, with hundreds of thousands of voters and say you can only vote in one location, it's just naturally going to disenfranchise people.

5. Ben Sasse:

   Every public official has a responsibility to tell the truth, all the clever arguments and rhetorical gymnastics in the world won't change the fact that this January 6th effort is designed to disenfranchise millions of Americans simply because they voted for someone in a different party. We ought to be better than that. If we normalize this, we're going to turn American politics into a Hatfields and McCoys endless blood feud -- a house hopelessly divided.