voter suppressionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

voter suppression (uncountable)

1. A strategy to influence the outcome of an election by discouraging or preventing specific groups of people from voting.
   • 2020 March 5, Kim Young Mie, “New Evidence Shows How Russia’s Election Interference Has Gotten More Brazen”, in Brennan Center‎^[1]:

     I identify four types of voter suppression messages: election boycott, deception (lying about time, location または 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).