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Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) [1] or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement can also refer to the revocation of ...
Alabama delegates at first hesitated, out of concern that illiterate whites would lose their votes. After the legislature stated that the new constitution would not disenfranchise any white voters and that it would be submitted to the people for ratification, Alabama passed an educational requirement. It was ratified at the polls in November 1901.
Prospective voters had to prove the ability to read and write the English language to white voter registrars, who in practice applied subjective requirements. Blacks were often denied the right to vote on this basis. Even well-educated blacks were often told they had "failed" such a test, if in fact, it had been administered.
If a voter only picks one candidate instead of ranking them all, and the race goes to a second round of counting, the voter's ballot is "exhausted" because there are no more candidates to count.
It also has a new voter ID law in place, that is the result of a court decision. But in terms of the absentee ballots, what's happening there is they moved up the deadline for returning the ...
An appeals court in Georgia recently ruled that absentee ballots must be returned by Election Day, as opposed to postmarked by Election Day, a decision that could disenfranchise thousands of voters.
Prior to the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 there were several efforts to stop the disenfranchisement of black voters by Southern states,. [7] Besides the above-mentioned literacy tests and poll taxes other bureaucratic restrictions were used to deny them the right to vote.
Poll taxes were used to disenfranchise voters, particularly African-Americans and poor whites in the South. [9] Poll taxes started in the 1890s, requiring eligible voters to pay a fee before casting a ballot. Some poor whites were grandfathered in if they had an ancestor who voted before the Civil War era.