Enfranchise used in a sentence

Enfranchise in a sentence as a verb

This referendum has convinced me that we should enfranchise 16 & 17 year olds for US elections.

The point is not to pick a different winner, it is to re-enfranchise voters in states that are strongly 'red' or strongly 'blue'

Variations may be desirable, eg postal ballots to enfranchise, but know the tradeoffs.

The idea being to enfranchise those who would be endangered if their identity and location were freely available.

Both MLK and Kennedy are probably the most notable examples of people who were quickly killed when they tried to change the system and enfranchise the poor.

There's always going to be a debate on to what extent should society go out of its way to enfranchise people and to what extent is the onus on the individual.

I'd certainly agree that, when poor, powerless and disenfranchised people are randomly lashing out, the only solution is to enfranchise them and bring them out of poverty.

Removing voting rights permanently certainly can't increase the engagement of criminals, enough that the voters of florida voted to enfranchise felons.

In particular, the United States of America does not in fact enfranchise all its citizens, it actually only gives the vote to wealthy men, almost exactly the same as England had done.