Electoral restrictions

minimum age of eligible voters

Political protest in New Caledonia

legal restriction that limits the number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office

system of government that excludes minorities

Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote. Disfranchisement can also refer to the revocation of power or control of a particular individual, community, or being to the natural amenity they have; that is to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, of some privilege or inherent immunity. Disfranchisement may be accomplished explicitly by law or implicitly t

minimum age for person to be in elected in governmental office

speech by Booker T. Washington

legal case

efforts in the Southern United States to prevent black citizens voting