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
Much to the loud dismay of voteless Washingtonians, it approved proposals by Michigan's Mapes for a District of Columbia tax on incomes and increases in the gasoline and estate levies.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the District's voteless citizen-advisers beheld the House's handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite the new law, however, thousands of citizens abroad are going to remain voteless.
From Time Magazine Archive
But their action went for much, and when later the great mass of the voteless began to move, there were rats in plenty of the kind that desert sinking ships.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
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