Voting: American People Have The Right To Vote

Franklin Roosevelt once said, “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” Voting is particularly important to the American citizen, it’s a chance to have your voice heard. According to the why on average do only sixty percent of eligible voters turnout to elections? As the lower class grows voting turnouts decrease because the more money you have the more likely you are to vote and vise versa.
Voting is extremely important which is the reason why there are five amendments to the constitution that eliminate the discrimination of voters. Any citizen above the age of eighteen has a right for their voice to be heard through a vote. But not everyone takes the opportunity to vote in fact there are large correlations between socioeconomic classes and voting turn outs. In a 2008 study conducted by the US Census Bureau they concluded that the higher your income the more likely you are to vote. If you made upwards of one-hundred and fifty-thousand dollars in 2008 there was a seventy-eight percent chance that you voted. More money means more access. Not everyone has access to T.V. or the internet to watch political debates or even means
“Education has the strongest impact on participation” the people who have extended their education have become equipped with the tools to become more successful in politics (Platz, Owen, and Cook, 2012.) The importance to capture an accurate representation of the population, however; it is impossible to do so if not every socioeconomic class has equal voting