Their hands sewed the clothes you're wearing and the ones in your closet. They picked the vegetables on your plate, stuffed chips into your computer, and steadied your grandmother when she went to the bathroom in her convalescent home. But those hands didn't punch the wrong hole on a presidential ballot in West Palm Beach. In fact, they didn't handle any ballots, in Florida or anywhere else. These hands didn't vote.
Voting is rare among low-income and immigrant workers.
Kono is too kind. Nationally, less than half the eligible population voted in this election. This pool of actual voters gets comparatively smaller every decade, and older and whiter than the population as a whole. Its median income, already above average, goes up as well. This is fine for Republicans, traditionally the party of the better-off.