No Excuses

Ride-sharing companies, Uber and Lyft, have announced that they are offering free and discounted rides to the polls this year! With less than a month until election, and in partnership with #VoteTogether and Democracy Works, Uber is providing free rides to anyone who needs transportation on November 6. Lyft will be providing free and discounted rides.

If you need a ride on November 6, download the Uber and/or Lyft apps. Within the Uber app, customers will see a ‘GET TO THE POLLS’ button; here you will press to find your nearest polling location. Lyft is also offering half-off coupons that will be made available through varying voter registration groups like Vote.org, Nonprofit Vote, and TurboVote. Nonpartisan groups will also help out, Voto Latino, Urban League, and National Federation for the Blind will be assisting voters in catching free Lyft rides.

The CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, summed it up by stating, “Decisions get made by those who show up. On November 6, I hope everyone does one thing: vote!”