Marc Veasey

I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.

American Politician

Alexander Meiklejohn

Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.

English Philosopher

Amitabh Bachchan

People ask me why it is that when I portray the 'angry young man' on screen, I really look angry. They reason that it is due to some suppression in my childhood. But, it's just that I can't help it; it's in my genes.

Indian Actor

Rush Limbaugh

The polls are just being used as another tool of voter suppression. The polls are an attempt to not reflect public opinion, but to shape it. Yours. They want to depress the heck out of you.

American Entertainer

Anthony Lewis

Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment.

American Journalist

Ryan Zinke

The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.

Tsai Ing-wen

Our democratic system, national identity, and international space must be respected. Any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations.

Taiwanese Politician

Stacey Abrams

I'm going to continue to do the work we're doing on voter suppression, supporting the work that's being done by Fair Count, ensuring a fair Census count.

Rhys Ifans

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

Welsh Actor

Jason Kander

Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

Used to describe deliberate and often forceful efforts to limit actions or information.

Contextual Severity

Generally carries a negative connotation, suggesting unfair or undesirable restriction.

Negative Connotation

In a medical context, implies reducing function intentionally or as a side effect.

Medical Specificity

It's important to specify what is being suppressed to avoid confusion in healthcare settings.

Precision in Medicine

In firefighting, emphasizes the urgency and importance of the action being taken.

Emergency Response

Highlighting the objective of protecting property and environment from fire damage.

Safety Priority

Refers to a specific, targeted action at the molecular level in genetic contexts.

Genetic Impact

Precision is key; understanding the exact function being suppressed is necessary.

Research Precision

Often used in engineering or tech to describe reduction of unwanted effects or signals.

Technical Contexts

In technology, suppression often leads to improvement or enhancement of overall functionality.

Improvement

 reasonable expectation is that somebody's Fame in a given period of time should be roughly the average of their fame before and their fame after so that's sort of what we expect now we compare that to the fame that we observe and we just divide one by the other to produce something we call the suppression index if the suppression

What we learned from 5...

 So that's sort of what we expect. And we compare that to the fame that we observe. And we just divide one by the other to produce something we call a suppression index. If the suppression index is very, very, very small, then you very well might be being suppressed. If it's very large, maybe you're benefiting from propaganda.

 They're not political cattle. We're not just going to turn them out. We need to encourage and persuade them, and then we also for these other swing voters need to make it easier for them to vote, and typically these young people of color, it's the hardest for them to vote because of voter suppression policies.

The difference between...

 is central to the evolution of our species and the continuation of the human race. And I want you imagine that at some point in history a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world understood that the suppression of this particular cell, the oppression of these cells,

Eve Ensler: Embrace your...

 on the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques, and would upload this to a central place. And that this would operate as a kind of citizen observation -- that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes, but also to help ensure the sanctity of the vote overall.

Clay Shirky: How...

 trying to build plans to combat disinformation and voter suppression in political ads, were rejected. And so I lasted just shy of six months. But here is my biggest takeaway from my time there. There are thousands of people at Facebook who are passionately working on a product

Dear Facebook, this is...

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Axolotls: The...

 the lookout for any kind of voter suppression techniques and would upload this to a central place and that this would operate as a kind of citizen of observation that citizens would not be there just to cast individual votes but also to help ensure the sanctity of the

How social media can...

 to allow us to address people very individually this next one is the most important well maybe voter suppression is very real it's happening in the US today the news talks about it a lot we happen to use OSHA headey mushahid is awesome to solve some of these problems

Prediction from 2013:...

 the primaries that we've seen so far where there's been a lot of voter suppression people are standing in line for hours upon hours to realize their right to vote and in the middle of a pandemic and that is inspiring to me right that is what's going to protect