List of voting disfranchisement strategies


 * Ballot stuffing: Election officials casting significant numbers of faked ballots, in favour of the preferred candidate(s) in order to win the election.
 * Poll tax: A tax usually due at the time of voting, preventing poor people from voting
 * Literacy test: A test for people registering to vote were they had to read a text (usually from the state constitution) and show that they understood. The person registering would then have to be approved by the registrar, who almost always was a white (man) that understood the hidden purpose of the test.
 * Grandfather clause: Those (white) americans who failed the literacy test and couldn't pay the poll tax was "saved" by the grandfather clause which pretty much meant that you could vote if your grandfather or great grandfather qualified to vote.