Explain how a voter's social class can affect his or her voting practices.

Voting rates among lower-educated, lower-paid workers are lower than for people with higher socioeconomic status. Workers in low-paying service jobs might find difficulties to get to the polls. Social class may be linked to race and ethnicity because a larger share of racial and ethnic minorities is employed in positions that have no flexibility in work hours or someone to take care of their children. Some people of low socioeconomic status doubt their vote will count because they have seen no evidence of their political power in their communities (a system in which people with more power have the means to perpetuate their power).