NOUN
- the right to vote; especially the right of a common shareholder to vote in person or by proxy on the affairs of a company
How To Use voting right In A Sentence
- It necessarily would mean that some members had voting rights while others would not. Times, Sunday Times
- He suggested the nomination " threw salt on the wounds of the thousands of Floridians whose voting rights were disenfranchised during the election.
- The black people gained the civil rights, especially the voting right, and the Equal Protection of the Laws Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to protect their rights during the Reconstruction.
- But many black legislators are pushing for strong enforcement of the federal Voting Rights Act from the Obama Justice Department, which must preapprove political maps for several states and ensure that minority voting power is not unreasonably diluted. Census: Hispanics surpass blacks in most U.S. metros
- On regional education committees the teaching unions have had their voting rights removed.
- It was the puppy mills and their pals in agribusiness that lobbied state lawmakers to refer a measure to the ballot to take away voting rights in the state and make sure only politicians, not citizens, could make decisions on animal issues. Wayne Pacelle: Playing Politics with Puppy Mill Abuse
- Scott's action, backed by the state's conservative Attorney General, Pam Bondi, followed that of Iowa's newly elected Republican governor Terry Branstad, who in January, in one of his first gubernatorial acts, announced an end to his predecessors' policy of granting an automatic restoral of voting rights to felons who had completed their sentences. Sasha Abramsky: America's Disenfranchisement Scandal
- Second, Section 5 singled out race-based denials of voting rights as the only kind of disfranchisement that justified aggressive federal protection. Election Law
- Parks had worked closely with E.D. Nixon, a black trade unionist in Montgomery, the head of the local branch of the sleeping car porters ' union and a longtime fighter for voting rights and other issues.
- The government extended voting rights to everyone over the age of 18.
