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Its easy to vote when you have the privilege (time) do it.
Many people work two or three jobs to make ends meet. Many others have kids in addition to wasting time commuting to work. In my situation, if I relied on public transport to get to work I'd waste nearly 5 additional hours per day for a total of 14 hours. That's 88% (14/16 hours) of my waking hours (assuming 8 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period) dedicated to doing something that will primarily benefit a large corporation. If I had kids and had to cook a full meal + get them ready for anything I'd have zero hours to take care of anything for myself.
The people struggling to make end meet are working harder than you can even imagine, considering this is your perspective.
It's hard to vote when you have a several week window, can do it from your house, and 4 years to prepare? I just don't see it.
To add: about 9 million people work more than one job in the us.
Assuming none of the people who work multiple jobs, whats with the other 80 million people?
This isn't some small marginalized population of people, it's almost 40 percent of the eligible voting population.
Y'all can downvote all you want, but don't act like people have no agency in their lives and don't act like their decisions aren't theirs.
13 million, source: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/06/about-thirteen-million-united-states-workers-have-more-than-one-job.html
To your point though, that still doesn't add up to the nearly 89 million people who didn't vote, source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-many-people-didn-t-vote-in-the-2024-election/ar-AA1uaH9n - I retract my statement as it's just a fraction of the overall picture. I'm curious what other driving factors exist. I'm not going to call it lazyness without evidence though. I need concrete studies/evidence, not just conjecture.