Meaning of voter suppression | Babel Free

Definitions

A strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.

uncountable

Examples

“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 attack, such as an attack on Clinton targeting likely Clinton voters).”

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