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Disenfranchisement is certainly the right word for the act of revoking the right to vote.
Even built on disenfranchise, I would prefer the disenfranchised over disenfranchisees. Although the underlying meaning of disenfranchise relates to the vote, it has broadened. The context would have to make it clear that it is discussing the right to vote. Within that context, the disenfranchised would be able to stand eloquently for what you intend.
I found this list of synonyms for disenfranchised on thesaurus.com, but if your intended meaning is "loss of voting privileges" then I'd tend to go with Glenn's suggestion and use an alternative construction to disenfranchisee, which is a mouthfull of a noun. Use disenfranchised as an adjective, and add whatever articles you need to make it work with your sentence structure.
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Denying someone the right of self-determination is political emasculation, or perhaps enslavement.
You could call them the electoral geldings or if you like living danbgerously, neo-niggers. While either of those could be defended in a calm deliberative envirnment (which is especially unlikely with the second one, for obvious reasons), it has been my experience that when you have to explain a neologism, it is impossible to use it effectively.
So I'd go with disentranchisees or disentranchiseds or disentranchised individuals, because there's no requirement that the reader buy into the semantic judgement that accompanies the neologisms. Dientranchised is an established term that's fairly neutral, semantically.
And welcome to the forum sesquiup!
Ditto. And if "sesqui" means "one and a half", I congratulaye you on your language skills!
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