Often, entire families get disenfranchised by their religious communities when one spouse comes out.
"We have been working with people and the case had been made that this was an effort to disenfranchise voters by making it harder to get people to the polls," state House Democratic Caucus Chairman Bryce Bennett (D-Missoula) told The Huffington Post.
Were I to propose a first step to the president-elect, it would be to use the bully pulpit to get those states, including Florida, that permanently disenfranchise ex-felons to ease their laws.
Virginia, a state that disenfranchises felons for life unless they apply to get the vote back, instituted a program in 2010 that guarantees a quicker decision on restoration requests.
"I don't want to get into the hearts and minds of the Republican legislatures that they meant to disenfranchise black people, but they probably meant to disenfranchise Democratic voters and the more vulnerable Democratic voters".
Soon Okolloh's image became a living organism, a source for democratising information in a climate where fractured reporting and corruption combined to disenfranchise the Kenyan citizens – as well as a resource for aid agencies to get to locations they otherwise would not have known were in difficulty.
Efforts to disenfranchise or discourage targeted voter groups, or to make it harder for voters to get IDs, register, or turn out, whether early or on Election Day, would have a serious potential penalty.
He was quoting Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s 1968 speech, "The Other America," in which King describes how the routinely disenfranchised might "feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention".
The law was attacked by Democrats as a ploy to disenfranchise poor, urban or elderly Obama voters who lack driving licences, and who found it hard to get alternative identity papers.
