Asians, including subjects who previously enjoyed the right to vote, were specifically denied suffrage.

They asserted this dominance by denying universal suffrage to African's and by trying to persuade the British government to consolidate colonial territories into federations.

The 1847 Constitution denied suffrage to the indigenous population by requiring voters to own real estate.

The conservative faction strengthened the previous constitution's slavery protections by denying suffrage to free blacks and mulattoes.

In the United States, women held no political offices, were denied suffrage, and in some states could not even control their inherited property.

Females were denied basic suffrage, and had no participation in the ruling councils of our worlds.

Another potentially controversial provision is section 6(1)(b) of the Parliamentary Elections Act, which denies suffrage to convicted criminals serving jail sentences.

Although military personnel are not denied suffrage by the constitution, the armed forces' leadership routinely instructed its personnel to refrain from voting in order to concentrate on providing security for polling places.

In 1870, the strongly Republican Congress passed an act imposing fines and damages for conspiracy to deny black suffrage.

Literacy tests, along with poll taxes and extra-legal intimidation, were used to deny suffrage to African-Americans.