The word 'disenfranchise' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where someone is denied the right to vote, typically because of their race, gender, or economic status. For example: "The new law disenfranchised minority communities and prevented many citizens from casting their ballots."
And even among those who think (unfairly, no doubt) that every frat boy is a woman-hating alcoholic, there's no system in place to disenfranchise Greek society members based on that assumption.
Does that disenfranchise the party member paying £40 a year vis-a-vis the affiliated member paying as little as £3 a year?
But an estimated 4.6 million UK citizens live abroad so it is non-trivial for such inefficiencies to essentially disenfranchise so many potential voters," he said.
The board stuck with the initial version so as not to disenfranchise those 200 voters, based on the advice of guess who Katherine Harris.
Many Sunnis say that banning high-ranking Baathists from public life would disenfranchise many of their natural leaders.
Too rare, say some opponents, to justify erecting barriers that will disproportionately disenfranchise poor, young and minority voters, who tend to support Democrats.
But those who wait until election day must vote on paper at a traditional polling station: this ensures that last-minute system crashes cannot disenfranchise voters.Some hope internet voting could help to encourage more people to vote.
The new parliamentary bill will disenfranchise them after only ten years.There has never been a settled consensus on how long British people should retain the vote after they give up their British residence.
"To allow the secretary to summarily disenfranchise innocent electors in an effort to punish dilatory [election] board members, as she proposes in the present case," the justices thundered unanimously, "misses the constitutional mark.
Few governments, or their voters, will vote to disenfranchise themselves.
It almost persuaded a court that the vote would disenfranchise the state's minorities, so should be ruled illegal.Raise the spectre of the digital divide with the technology vendors and e-government champions within the public sector, and their brows furrow with concern but not for long.
