Mr. Ball said: "When I pitched the show to HBO, they asked me what it was about, and I said, it's about what it really means to be disenfranchised, to be feared, to be misunderstood.
"We are putting together a job-training program to train those who are disenfranchised to be a part of the labor force that builds the apartments," Piece told Newsweek.
In reality, most cases of child abuse go unreported, either because the child targeted as a victim is disenfranchised to begin with, and therefore not likely to have a safety net to report abuse to, or because the stigma of identifying oneself as a victim seems worse than remaining quiet.
*As of 2004, more African American men were disenfranchised (due to felon disenfranchisement laws) than in 1870, the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race.
In 2014, The Sentencing Project, a policy reform campaign, estimated that one in five African-Americans were disenfranchised due to a felony conviction in the age of mass incarceration.
More African American men were disenfranchised due to felony convictions in 2004 than in 1870, "the year the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified prohibiting laws that explicitly deny the right to vote on the basis of race," she wrote in a Huffington Post blog published last year.
Then there's Subramanian Swamy, a recent entrant to the B.J.P. best remembered for calling for Muslims to be disenfranchised: "Need to probe why there is a spate of allegations against Asaram Bapu.
Voters are less likely to be disenfranchised due to registration errors, because the state takes on the burden of getting people on the rolls, but eliminates mistakes caused by paper registration.
They were disenfranchised, felt ignored, and wanted to see a systematic change.
The percentage of invalidated votes here was far higher than that recorded in Palm Beach County, which has become the focus of national attention and where Democrats have argued that so many people were disenfranchised it may be necessary to let them vote again.
