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The bureaucratic art of misplacing someone's vote without ever touching the ballot box.
means The act of stripping a person or group of a right, especially the right to vote.
from From the French franchise, freedom or privilege, with the prefix dis- meaning to undo; literally, to un-free someone from a liberty they were granted.
Older twinDisenfranchisement is the newer, longer variant.
Beyond votingOnce meant losing any legal right or privilege.
Quiet weaponOften achieved through paperwork, not force.