And besides, relying on a popular vote argument "disenfranchises" (to use a Clintonian term appropriately, for a change) all the participants in all the caucus states, the results from which are not reflected in any of the popular vote totals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We wonder if someone will start arguing for a national primary on the ground that the current system "disenfranchises" the easily confused. ❋ Unknown (2008)
"disenfranchises" them, he says, calling for patients to be better educated about their options. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Likening the decision to poll taxes, literacy tests and voter ID laws, he notes that its effect is an apportionment of House seats that disenfranchises millions of largely minority voters. ❋ John Allen Paulos (2010)
"The Minnesota tradition in law [is] to enfranchise people, and their decision disenfranchises many Minnesotans whose votes have been wrongly rejected," said Coleman legal spokesman Ben Ginsberg. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Texas violated the Voting Rights Act with a redistricting plan that disenfranchises minority voters, the Justice Department argued. ❋ Unknown (2011)
She added that the majority's decision disenfranchises not just this particular candidate, but every voter in Chicago who would consider voting for him. ❋ Douglas Belkin (2011)
In its effort to isolate decisions to log wildlands from national attention, the Tester bill disenfranchises public lands stakeholders, by overriding legitimate science-based forest planning that involves full public information and participation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And Lampkin accused the majority of a "careless disregard for the law shortly before an election for the office of mayor in a major city," concluding: "The majority's decision disenfranchises not just this particular candidate, but every voter in Chicago who would consider voting for him." ❋ Jen Sabella (2011)
By not seeing that poverty is not a crime; it is part of a outcome of social policies that benefit the rich and disenfranchises the poor and increasingly the middle class. ❋ Jakada Imani (2011)
Yet somehow no other country similarly disenfranchises residents of its capital. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It disenfranchises and oppressed most of those that are supposedly part of the rescue. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Linking human trafficking and torture victims to consenting adult sex work and focusing attention on the first to disenfranchise the second disenfranchises both. ❋ Unknown (2009)
