&gt; The poor often vote against their own interests<p>&gt;&gt; agreed.<p>&gt;&gt; but surely the natural solution is to increase the number of informed people (education, PSAs, &#x27;nudging&#x27; people towards being more informed) not to disenfranchise the poor.<p>The conversation could enter a loop at this point.<p>Also, since the same groups that spread the ignorance in the article, are often very active in trying to disenfranchise the poor, either they are incompetent or they know quite well that there&#x27;s things they want to push through that widespread democractic representation would prevent, even in it&#x27;s current dysfunctional state.<p>And they could save all the money they spend convincing poor people to vote against their own interests, and use it to convince lower middle class people to vote against their own interests (at least until they can disenfranchise them too).