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voter suppression

voter suppression noun: a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.

Noun

voter suppression (uncountable)

  1. A strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
    • I identify four types of voter suppression messages: election boycott, deception (lying about time, location or manner of voting), third-party candidate promotion (e.g., the promotion of Jill Stein targeting likely Hillary Clinton voters), and same-side candidate attack (i.e., an in-kind candidate...2020 March 5, Kim Young Mie, “New Evidence Shows How Russia’s Election Interference Has Gotten More Brazen”, in Brennan Center

Questions about voter suppression

What does voter suppression mean?
Voter suppression means a strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
What part of speech is voter suppression?
Voter suppression is a noun.

Words near voter suppression in the dictionary

  1. voter
  2. voter base
  3. voter bases
  4. voter roll
  5. voter rolls
  6. voter suppression
  7. voterland
  8. voters
  9. voters' roll
  10. voters' rolls
  11. votership

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