Reply #6: Many middle class Americans cannot imagine the lives that the poor lead

[roseBudd]

They can't imagine why a poor person who doesn't have any photo identification and no birth certificate wouldn't immediately hop on a bus to go to the Board of Health to obtain a copy of their birth certificate...

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so they can not fly to Jamaica or Mexico for vacation

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And then hop another bus to go to the DMV & pay another fee just so they can add one vote to a candidate that is more likely to make the lives of our poorest citizens a little more bearable.

Honestly, to a poor person, what is the value to them of casting a vote. If it involves spending time & money that they don't have, for that measly hope that it might make their lives better, I don't doubt that voter participation will decline measurably among low income people.