Why the young and rich vote less.

The article offers information on voting trend in Africa. It mentions that ruling parties find it easier to corral old, poor and rural voters, as compared to young and rich vote. It also mentions that Kimuli Kasara of Columbia University and Pavithra Suryanarayan of Johns Hopkins University, who surveyed voting patterns in poor countries, many of them in Africa, found that the poorest fifth of citizens tended to vote more assiduously than the richest fifth.