Literacy And Voting

To commence with, I would like to pose a question to all of you - What would literacy mean here—matriculates, graduates, PhDs? Who decides?
I would also like to ask the audience at large the difference between ‘literacy’ and ‘education’. To answer this- Literacy merely implies ability to read and write whereas education is enhancing one’s ability to reason, make informed choices and sound judgement.
It is a statistical fact that for elections at all levels, a certain the segment of the voting population which has rendered itself powerless to affect the outcome of elections: is the educated, middle and upper class, largely urban segment of the population. They are majorly ruled by by their perception that their vote cannot matter. Their