Poor people in the United States rarely participate in American elections because they don’t trust the political system and feel “disenfranchised,” says an analyst and politician in New Jersey.
“Poor voters feel frightened and anonymized and disenfranchised,” said Costantino Rozzo, a 2016 Democratic candidate seeking election to the US House of Representatives.
Many poor Americans “cannot vote because of unfair voter practices,” Rozzo told Press TV on Monday. They also fear their votes won’t count and will be tampered with, he said.
“They’re also frightened because their watching one of the worst and most corrupt Democratic campaigns in history; we have never seen these tactics.”
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says the sad reality in American society is that “poor people don’t vote” and that’s the reason he has lost the primary elections in 17 states with high income inequality.
Sanders also decried the low voter turnout in US elections during an interview filmed Saturday in Baltimore and aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Hillary Clinton has won the primaries in 17 out of the 25 states with the highest income inequality, "Meet the Press" moderator Chuck Todd told the Vermont senator.
“Because poor people don’t vote,” sanders replied. “I mean, that’s just a fact; that’s a sad reality of American society and that’s what we have to transform.”
“We have one – as you know – one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on Earth,” Sanders stated. “In America today – in the last election in 2014, 80 percent of poor people did not vote.”
Sanders has based his campaign on a promise to lessen the vast wealth and income inequality in the US, and he has received support from a record number of grassroots donors whose small contributions have consistently added up to monthly fundraising totals that dwarf those of Clinton.
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