voter suppression

collocation in English

meaningsofvoterandsuppression

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voter
noun[C]
uk
/ˈvəʊ.tər/us
/ˈvoʊ.t̬ɚ/
a person who votes or who has a legal right to vote, especially in ...
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suppression
noun[U]
us
//uk
/-ˈpreʃ.ən/
the act of ending something ...
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(Definition ofvoterandsuppressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We know that there was substantialvotersuppression, and the machines were not reliable.
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Votersuppressioninstead attempts to reduce the number of voters who might vote against the candidate or proposition advocated by the suppressors.
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It involved allegations that robocalls and real-person calls that were designed to result invotersuppressionwere employed.
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Unfairness in elections encompasses all varieties of electoral fraud,votersuppressionor intimidation, unbalanced campaign finance rules, and imbalanced access to the media.
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What this story really is about, it's aboutvotersuppression.
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One of the charges raised was that ofvotersuppression, a term for discouraging or impeding people from voting.
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Endingvotersuppressionwill guarantee that every citizen that wants to vote will have the opportunity to cast their ballot for the person of their choice.
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This wasvotersuppression, pure and simple.
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Griffin called the allegations ofvotersuppressionabsolutely, positively false.
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He explains about the lawsuit (as opposed to the recount), discusses some of thevotersuppressiontactics used, and talks about the expected course of the legal wrangling.
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