voter suppression
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.54 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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)."