Meanings
- uncountableA strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
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I identify four types of voter suppression messages: election boycott, deception (lying about time, location or manner of voting), third-party candidate promotion (e.g., the promotion of Jill Stein targeting likely Hillary Clinton voters), and same-side candidate attack (i.e., an in-kind candidate attack, such as an attack on Clinton targeting likely Clinton voters).
2020 March 5, Kim Young Mie, “New Evidence Shows How Russia’s Election Interference Has Gotten More Brazen”, in Brennan Center
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voter suppression. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/voter%20suppression
“voter suppression.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/voter%20suppression. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “voter suppression,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/voter%20suppression.
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