The protesters made a point of pledging that they would demonstrate peacefully, however intense their feelings of "outrage about the trampling of the electoral process and the disenfranchisement of voters," in the words of Les Souci, an organizer for Voter March, one of the protest organizations.
The point of the referendum, then, is to create a democratic process, to enfranchise people in an age of disenfranchisement, around an issue that has deeply affected the nation and exposed the fissures of racism.
Key to this process was the disenfranchisement of nearly all African Americans and a significant number of white southerners, too.
Mr. Monserrate and his legal defense team, led by Norman Siegel, a well-known civil rights litigator, sought to frame the expulsion as an issue of due process and voter disenfranchisement.
Similarly, advocates of disenfranchisement believe that "a punishment of incarceration without disenfranchisement...would be too lenient".
Instead, it's a form of disenfranchisement.
Delay can only increase the chances of disenfranchisement.
It's also at the root of disenfranchisement.
"The volunteers went through a period of disenfranchisement.
