Sentence examples for restrictive registration from inspiring English sources
Foreign aid has only contributed about 2m Turkish lira to that figure, partly due to Turkey's restrictive registration policies for foreign non-governmental organisations.
But especially in the south, African Americans, along with other minorities and poor people of all races, were kept from voting through other means, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and restrictive registration procedures.
It also overlooks the abundant evidence of continuing harassment and exclusion of minorities, not just in the south – through restrictive registration laws, overcrowded polling places in minority neighborhoods, dishonestly compiled voter purge lists, the denial of voting rights to ex-felons, police intimidation, and the crippling effect of mass incarceration.
"The recent experiences of many other countries which – like Cambodia – lack independent judiciaries and other institutions, have shown that NGO laws are regularly used to stifle criticism of the government by civil society, through such means as restrictive registration requirements and even criminal prosecution," it said.
Like Mississippi and Maryland, Arizona chose to create a dual system when it piled on additional restrictive registration rules for its state registration application.
"New York has some of the worst election laws in the United States [including] the most restrictive registration law in the country for independent and unaffiliated voters," Cathy Stewart, citywide coordinator for New York City Independence Clubs, said.
All across the country, states like Florida, Texas, Ohio and Wisconsin have either passed restrictive laws or are engaging in suppressive tactics like restricting registration, cutting early voting and purging eligible voters.
Some elements, such as the highly restrictive internal registration system, never went away at all.
Restrictive NGO registration policies can be just as exclusionary.
Research by Jame Avery and Mark Peffley finds, "states with restrictive voter registration laws are much more likely to be biased toward upper-class turnout".
One Pennsylvania legislator pointed to restrictive voter registration laws as the reason why his preferred presidential candidate would win the state.
