a. [f. VOTE sb. + -LESS.] Having no vote. (Common from 1880.)
1672. H. More, Brief Reply, 87. The Lay Courtiers … were enabled to vote, when so many of the Reverend Clergy were by devices made vote-less.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xi. There was a way of using voteless miners and navvies at Nominations and Elections.
1884. Fortn. Rev., Feb., 212. Many artisans live voteless outside boroughs.
1888. Co-operative News, 15 Dec., 1261. We only refer to their voteless condition in order [etc.].
