text: You probably believe you have the right to police and fire protection. What if you dialed 911 and they asked for your credit card # before dispatching help. Yes, they might say, you have the right to emergency services, but that doesn't mean transporting them to your location is free. 
  Do you believe that people who don't "get out", e.g. hospital patients, nursing home residents or other house-bound people shouldn't be allowed to vote? Or would you believe that your tax-dollars paid for the cost of delivery of police and fire protection, and therefore also your ballot? And that your tax dollars paid for the cost of elections so the least gov't could do is ensure everyone, no matter how poor, could vote?
  Is your right to participate in your own governance less important to you than the protection of your life and property? Because if people weren't allowed to vote representatives out of office I guarantee that down that road lies dictatorship, where no one's life or property are safe.