Sentence examples for harsh registration from inspiring English sources
And, as the war is being fought through litigation in Texas, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania combating those restrictive voter ID laws, the vote is being suppressed by unlawful purges, cuts to early voting, and harsh registration regulations.
Over the past two years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have been conducting an aggressive vote-suppression strategy of their own through the passage of voter identification laws and laws imposing harsh restrictions on voter registration drives.
States are adopting harsh standards for voter registration drives to make it harder for people to register, as well as draconian voter identification laws to make casting a ballot harder for poor people, racial minorities, the elderly and students.
A federal judge recently halted Florida's Republican-voted restrictions on voter registration groups there, calling them "harsh and impractical".
Indeed, individuals who are legally in the country but lack local registration have also reportedly faced such harsh consequences as detention, police abuses or deportation [ 36, 40, 41].
From attacks on the Voting Rights Act to harsh voter ID laws to cutbacks on early voting to limits on voter registration, these restrictions disproportionately target low-income voters, young voters, and people of color, especially African Americans".
The only other option was to join the opposition ranks and inevitably lose the official registration (i.e. the right to participate in elections, under current legislation) and face harsh repression.
The harsh reality of disenfranchisement has already been felt in Arizona, with its sweeping proof-of-citizenship registration requirement passed as part of the anti-immigrant Proposition 200 referendum in 2004.
