In battleground Georgia, poor people see no reason to vote. That decision could sway election

[Dulcinea]

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Sabrina Friday scanned the room at Mother’s Nest, an organization in Macon that provides baby supplies, training, food and housing to mothers in need, and she asked how many planned to vote. Of the 30, mostly women, six raised their hands.

Friday, the group’s executive director, said she tries to stress civic duty, an often difficult proposition given the circumstances of her clients.

“When a mom is in a hotel room and there’s six or seven people in two beds and her kids are hungry and she just lost the car, she doesn’t want to hear too much about elections,” Friday said. “She wants to hear how you can help.”

Macon is the largest city in Bibb County, where the majority of residents are Black and one in four of its population lives in poverty. When Joe Biden became president four years ago, he promised to tackle the pernicious gap in racial equity — and in few places is the stubbornness of that challenge as politically significant in this state that could swing the presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-voters-nonvoters-election-34209a5bba0b2697eb6fcdd004dca584

[Tetrachloride]

1. it would seem to me that food is the civic duty as well

somehow what we have here is a failure to communicate and feed

[kevink077]

2. This is what republicans want

[lees1975]

3. "Could swing the Presidential election."

And how, would it do that? Resolving the poverty problem is more than just doling things out. How does voting Trump help, he just made it worse when it was already bad.

[surrealAmerican]

4. That example of the mother who's living in a hotel room :

There are simply too many barriers to her being able to vote. She may not be able to even register because she doesn't have a way to prove her address. Transportation with her children in tow is difficult and expensive.


Trying to convince her that she's being "irresponsible" is definitely the wrong approach.