Etymology
Origin of voteless
Example Sentences
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“As Dad used to say, ‘A voteless people is a powerless people,’ and one of the most important steps that we can take is that short step to the ballot box.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023
The voteless pay raise was part of a carrot-and-stick deal carefully engineered by House Speaker Tip O'Neill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jennings Randolph, 39, Democrat, of Elkins, W.Va., is chairman of the House District Committee, source of all House legislation affecting the voteless District of Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The peasants were virtually voteless and voiceless except for their chance to vote for a village leader of some other class, to vote in separate elections to the weak duma.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this were the case, it would infallibly appear in his manner towards our voteless friend.
From Aliens by McFee, William
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