Etymology
Origin of voteless
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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
He totted up results in the five commuter counties bordering voteless Washington, D.C., found they had given Dewey a 5,000-vote lead.
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
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
But Mr. Williams, White-Hat Williams, the richest man in Chippinge, who, voteless, had only lived of late to see this day--he was here at the head of his clothmen, and as fierce as the poorest.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
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