Sentence examples for denied voting from inspiring English sources

Thousands of U.S. residents eligible for citizenship will be denied voting eligibility in 2016 because of a naturalization backlog.

As such, they are denied voting privileges and the stamp of legitimacy as independent ombudsmen that full membership would suggest.

8) The USA's Chuck Blazer, who denied fraud then turned FBI informant after facing a multi-million dollar tax bill; and Argentina's late Fifa vice-president Julio Grondona, who denied voting for Qatar in return for $78.4m plus the proceeds of a Brazil v Argentina friendly in Doha on the eve of the vote to ease his FA's debt crisis.

Like Faubus, he practiced racial segregation in the school system, and denied voting rights to blacks.

Discrimination against minorities has worsened, particularly against Muslims, more than 1 million of whom have been denied voting rights in the upcoming vote.

The number of Americans denied voting rights continues to grow despite the general easing of barriers to voting for people with criminal records.

Policies that deny voting rights to people who have paid their debt to society offend fundamental tenets of democracy.

The only real reason to deny voting as punishment is to degrade prisoners, to underscore that they lack not just freedom, but equality in society.

No other democracy denies voting rights to so many because of their criminal records, said Marc Mauer, the Sentencing Project's assistant director.

Notwithstanding the transition to external voting since 2014 presidential elections, it can be safely argued that Turkey did not deny voting rights to emigrants on the basis of residence requirements.

Though only three states permanently deny voting rights to felons, 34 impose some form of restriction on voting after a criminal conviction.