Voter suppression
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voter-suppression-179-15401504
title:
Voter suppression
text:
Voter suppression is a strategy used to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting. It is distinguished from political campaigning in that campaigning attempts to change likely voting behavior by changing the opinions of potential voters through persuasion and organization, activating otherwise inactive voters, or registering new supporters. Voter suppression, instead, attempts to gain an advantage by reducing the turnout of certain v
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description:
Strategy designed to restrict specific groups of people from voting
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression
date created:
2004-11-02T01:49:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T03:07:18Z
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