signal boosting: rides to the polls

[redbird]

Signal-boosting rydra_wong's post:

Lyft are going to be providing half-price or free rides to the polls on Nov 6 for those in need:

https://twitter.com/lyft/status/1032666321551544321
https://blog.lyft.com/posts/2018/8/22/get-out-the-vote

Across the country, we’ll give away 50% off promo codes with our partners that encourage voter turnout. We’re thrilled to be working with Vote.org, Nonprofit Vote, TurboVote and more to help distribute codes to those who need them. We’ll also have a product integration to help passengers find their polling location.

For underserved communities, we’ll provide rides free of cost through nonpartisan, nonprofit partners, including Voto Latino, local Urban League affiliates, and the National Federation of the Blind.

(Like Rydra, I am not the biggest fan of ride-sharing apps, but even here the T may not go to your polling place, rather than several hilly blocks away.)

Comments

[the_rck]

I don’t expect last minute information to alter how I vote. Local politics are such that whoever won the Democratic nomination will win for city and county offices. None of the local judges face opponents. I think there might be nonpartisan races for library board, and I will have to research the candidates for the state Supreme Court (technically nonpartisan but endorsed by parties).

Most of the Republican candidates are vile enough that I’d rather vote for a dead snake, so the actual Democratic candidates would probably have to come after me with a literal axe to lose my vote. For that matter, an axe wielding Gretchen Whitmer still couldn’t be worse than Bill Schuette, so...

[redbird]

That makes sense. Where I am the Democratic primary will choose the Congressmember and district attorney, barring surprise write-in candidacies.

The real question for me is, vote in the Democratic primary because I have a strong preference for DA, or in the Republican primary as one more vote against the horrible anti-gay candidate for governor. (I doubt the incumbent has much chance of losing that primary, short of doing something horrible at the last minute, or dying suddenly.)

[thnidu]

«doing something horrible at the last minute, or dying suddenly»

So mote it be!