With few exceptions, women of all races everywhere were also denied suffrage rights (see woman suffrage).
Systematically depriving American voters of large quantities of information essential for enlightened exercise of their suffrage rights places our country on a trajectory toward tyranny.
What right does the government have, he wrote, to "simply cast aside the inherent suffrage rights of any qualified elector" in the hopes of preventing some unqualified people from voting?
Yoichi Funabashi, editor-in-chief of the Asahi Shimbun, a national newspaper, who supports giving Koreans suffrage rights, says the biggest fear among Japanese may not be the Koreans.
Once suffrage rights had been extended to masses of voters who, in theory, were assumed to be equal, open voting was no longer tolerable, precisely because it could and often did involve undue influence, ranging from hidden persuasion and bribery to intimidation, coercion, and punishment.
Even more obviously, by repudiating political rights like the "right to ignore the state" and universal suffrage rights, he similarly divulged just how much empirical utilitarian considerations trumped all else in his practical reasoning.
Feminists had long been agitating for suffrage rights, but three attempts at constitutional amendments had failed badly.
Promote Our Vote advances resolutions for cities, campuses and organizations to endorse an affirmative right to vote in the Constitution and commit to concrete actions to improve voter turnout, protect voter access when threatened and consider expansion of suffrage rights.
The council this week voted to approve the first reading of a charter amendment that would establish same day voter registration in city elections, extend voting rights to more people with felony convictions and make Takoma Park the first city in the United State to join what has become an international movement to extend suffrage rights to people after they turn age 16.
We need to expand our vision, just as we must when addressing other voting rights controversies like suffrage rights for different groups of American citizens and our inadequate voting equipment infrastructure and accountability for election administration breakdowns involving long lines, poorly trained pollworkers and confusing ballot designs.
