disenfranchised
Minnesotaくんの書いている通り、今日は選挙報道一色になりそうです。
disenfranchisedという歴史に関係する言葉が出てきました。dis+enfranchisedなので、「投票権を奪われた」という意味ですね。(GP)
Officials Rush to Find Ways for the Storm-Tossed to Vote
Elected officials in New York and New Jersey scrambled Monday to enable displaced citizens to vote in the election on Tuesday, relocating scores of coastal polling places that had become unusable because of power failures, flooding or evacuations.
New Jersey and New York both said they would allow voters uprooted by Hurricane Sandy to cast provisional ballots anywhere in their states.
“Just because you’re displaced doesn’t mean you should be disenfranchised,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said in announcing the step on Monday.
But the provisional ballots would, in many cases, allow residents to vote only in statewide contests and in the presidential election, in which President Obama is heavily favored in both states. The ballots could not be used in local and Congressional races, which in some areas are far more competitive.