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

[minoanmiss]

I heartily recommend absentee voting. I don't have nearly as many good reasons as you do and I did for the last election just to be done and try to ignore all the electioneering.

[redbird]

As I said, my main reason for not getting an absentee ballot is that I am fond of the ritual of going to the polling place: I think anyone who wants an absentee ballot, and can get one, should. I lived in Washington for three years, and yes I missed the voting booths, but having everyone vote by mail leads to higher turnout, which is good. (It also leads to things like a candidate giving a victory speech on election night, then conceding two weeks later when all the late-mailed ballots have been counted. I was amused by this, separately from being pleased by the first Socialist elected t the Seattle city council in more than a century.)

[minoanmiss]

Oh, there's definitely something to be said for the Ritual of Voting too. :) Here is where I should say something witty and charming about how wonderful having multiple choices is, or something like that. blushes