The GOP is literally dying off

[nitpicker]

116. If you aren't car-owned

It can be difficult to vote.

My northern VA precinct has the nearest bus route come a half-mile away from the school.

And the one running by the garden apartments has its closest approach at the foot of a moderately steep hill.

There is the option of absentee voting in person at the courthouse or by mail, but it's usually the elderly who do that.

In my personal experience, except for presidential primaries and presidential elections, most of the garden-apartment registered voters don't bother to vote. ((One post-9/11 kid did last month, but that was an exception.)) We do get a few cyclists, but generally it's Gen X and older, usually home-owned, that turn out in person.

Unless people organize, e.g. give rides to the polls, IMO it won't change Here in My precinct.