In 1889, Taylor signed into law a poll tax and a number of other bills aimed at suppressing turnout among African-American and poor voters.

The Republicans, of course, deny an effort to suppress turnout.

Conversely, adding barriers, such as a separate registration process, can suppress turnout.

But Democrats call the plan an effort to suppress black turnout.

The rain could suppress Republican turnout in the west without lowering Democratic turnout in the center of the state.

The updated forecast suggests it will rain across the entire state, suppressing Democratic turnout too.

But democracy activists were suspicious that the government was actually trying to suppress turnout for the march.

Democrats have complained that the ads are intended to suppress black turnout.

This commercial might have done more to suppress turnout than the butterfly ballot.

Some debate still exists about the timing of the story only a few months before the 2004 mid-term elections, and to what degree the scandal suppressed turnout.