Sentence examples for disenfranchised compared to from inspiring English sources

In Kentucky, an estimated 1 in 5 African-Americans are disenfranchised, compared to 1 in 13 nationally. .

Over 7.4percentt of the adult African American population is disenfranchised compared to 1.8percentt of the non-African American population.

Punishing people with felony records hits African Americans harder than other races: 7percentt of blacks are disenfranchised compared to 1.8percentt of the rest of the country, the study found.

27 The impact of the digital divide is that older adults would be more disadvantaged and more disenfranchised compared to their younger counterparts.

"The complexity and opaqueness of our tax system compared to these developed countries (Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, UK) is remarkable and leaves people disenfranchised with our country".

In democracy, the recent attempts at voter disenfranchising under the guise of fraud prevention have failed to awaken Americans to how outdated our voting system is compared to other countries.

Predictions that up to five million people might be disenfranchised turned out to be unfounded.

This portrait of a fragmented, disengaged and possibly significantly disenfranchised electorate matters to us all.

Many have compared the policy to disenfranchise people with felony convictions as a "modern-day version of Jim Crow" that unfairly targets black Americans, a segment of the population long impacted by mass incarceration.

North Carolina NAACP President Rev. William Barber, who has been vocal in his opposition to the measure and is set to announce several civil disobedience events to protest it, compared the voter ID bill to a poll tax and said it would disenfranchise minorities.

"We weren't really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disenfranchise people entitled to vote".