Eviction is voter suppression. Poverty is voter suppression. Forcing people to hustle between multiple jobs so they can pay rent is voter suppression. Stealing people& #39;s time and labor through patchwork social services and labyrinthine bureaucracies is voter suppression.

How can people be motivated to participate in an election if they& #39;ve lost work, they& #39;re being evicted, they& #39;re living in their car, they& #39;re paying everything they have to stay in a motel? What remaining bandwidth will people have to go out and vote?

It& #39;s almost impossible to vote if you are unhoused. @KCTenants leader Tonya Bowman spent two days on the phone figuring out how to register last spring. After finally registering, she got to the polls and they couldn& #39;t find her info. She was forced to submit a provisional ballot.

Voter suppression isn& #39;t inevitable, it& #39;s tactical. Whole industries COUNT on disenfranchising poor and working class people. Those who profit from the status quo DEPEND on maintaining poverty wages and sky-high rents and starved public programs.