And lower income people are far more likely to be renters than landowners. Lower income jobs are less likely to provide time off to vote. Even if mail-in voting is allowed such low-income jobs are also less likely to provide time off to attend city council meetings or public hearings or other such things.
Yup. Census data shows that non voters with incomes less than $20k/year give transportation issues as the reason in 8% of cases, but only 0.1% of people with incomes over $100k give this reason.