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Hundreds of eligible Cobb County voters did everything right and yet find themselves on the brink of total disenfranchisement because they were never mailed their absentee ballots, as is required under Georgia law, only this court can right the wrong done to these hundreds of voters and ensure that they are able to exercise their fundamental right to vote in this November election. – Jonathan Topaz	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
From what I've experienced just knocking on doors, there is a lot of voter apathy. Then you see something like your congressman being investigated by the FBI and that leads to even more disillusionment and disenfranchisement, we can not deny the red trend in South Texas. – Tannya Benavides	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Doing State Katie Hobbs job in a state that was protected under the Voting Rights Act, State Katie Hobbs knows about the disenfranchisement of Black voters, of voters of color -- especially in Arizona( among) Latinos and indigenous people. To do State Katie Hobbs job, State Katie Hobbs had to evolve. – Garrick McFadden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's the most bald-faced attempt at disenfranchisement since Jim Crow. – John Mark	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This legislation represents a new mark in the invisibility and disenfranchisement of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) and adds to the systematic restriction of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms that have been practiced for years in Hungary. – city council	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And so what it really says is that we can not give training on how to complete it, how to apply for it or any of those things and we think that is voter disenfranchisement. – Gloria Sweet Love	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Make no mistake, the former secretary of state was deliberate and intentional in his actions, i know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired affect on the electoral process in Georgia. – Stacey Abrams	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This serves as an outright disenfranchisement and burden on the right to vote. – Marc Elias	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is not disenfranchisement at all. The person that has their vote taken away and has been purged -- that's the person we need to be fighting for, voters want us to be listening to them, and this is a way to show that we are listening -- to show that we are understanding the changes that had to be made after 2016. – Michael Blake	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is unconscionable to deny voting rights to New Yorkers who have paid their debt and have re-entered society, this reform will reduce disenfranchisement and will help restore justice and fairness to our democratic process. Withholding or delaying voting rights diminishes our democracy. – New York	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This reform will reduce disenfranchisement and will help restore justice and fairness to our democratic process. Withholding or delaying voting rights diminishes our democracy. – New York	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen. That's real disenfranchisement, it's happening every election and it's happening in every state. – Kris Kobach	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

Hundreds of eligible Cobb County voters did everything right and yet find themselves on the brink of total disenfranchisement because they were never mailed their absentee ballots, as is required under Georgia law, only this court can right the wrong done to these hundreds of voters and ensure that they are able to exercise their fundamental right to vote in this November election.

– Jonathan Topaz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

From what I've experienced just knocking on doors, there is a lot of voter apathy. Then you see something like your congressman being investigated by the FBI and that leads to even more disillusionment and disenfranchisement, we can not deny the red trend in South Texas.

– Tannya Benavides

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Doing State Katie Hobbs job in a state that was protected under the Voting Rights Act, State Katie Hobbs knows about the disenfranchisement of Black voters, of voters of color -- especially in Arizona( among) Latinos and indigenous people. To do State Katie Hobbs job, State Katie Hobbs had to evolve.

– Garrick McFadden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's the most bald-faced attempt at disenfranchisement since Jim Crow.

– John Mark

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This legislation represents a new mark in the invisibility and disenfranchisement of lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) and adds to the systematic restriction of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms that have been practiced for years in Hungary.

– city council

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And so what it really says is that we can not give training on how to complete it, how to apply for it or any of those things and we think that is voter disenfranchisement.

– Gloria Sweet Love

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Make no mistake, the former secretary of state was deliberate and intentional in his actions, i know that eight years of systemic disenfranchisement, disinvestment and incompetence had its desired affect on the electoral process in Georgia.

– Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This serves as an outright disenfranchisement and burden on the right to vote.

– Marc Elias

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is not disenfranchisement at all. The person that has their vote taken away and has been purged -- that's the person we need to be fighting for, voters want us to be listening to them, and this is a way to show that we are listening -- to show that we are understanding the changes that had to be made after 2016.

– Michael Blake

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It is unconscionable to deny voting rights to New Yorkers who have paid their debt and have re-entered society, this reform will reduce disenfranchisement and will help restore justice and fairness to our democratic process. Withholding or delaying voting rights diminishes our democracy.

– New York

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This reform will reduce disenfranchisement and will help restore justice and fairness to our democratic process. Withholding or delaying voting rights diminishes our democracy.

– New York

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Every time an alien votes, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen. That's real disenfranchisement, it's happening every election and it's happening in every state.

– Kris Kobach

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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