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Lyft Will Offer Discounted Rides to Voters During Midterm Elections

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 30 2018, @01:46PM   
from the need-a-lyft? dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Getting to the polls can be an obstacle for many American voters. Thirty-five percent of youth who didn't go to college say a lack of transportation was why they didn't vote in the 2016 election, according to The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

Ride-hailing service Lyft said Thursday that it wants to help tackle the problem by offering half-priced rides across the country during this year's midterm elections. Riders can enter location-based codes into the Lyft app to access the discounted rides.

"It's about using our voice and our platform to make sure folks have access to go vote," said Mike Masserman, Lyft's head of Social Impact.

The US midterm elections will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 6.

Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/lyft-will-offer-discounted-rides-to-voters-during-midterm-elections/

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• Re:Self-reporting, and accuracy Re:Self-reporting, and accuracy (Score: 3, Interesting) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:15PM (2 children)

  by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Thursday August 30 2018, @09:15PM (#728425)

  Putting candidate's answers to a neutral issues-positions survey beside their names (instead of just grouping a list of names by D/R/L/G/etc.) would go a long way towards fixing that, but the D and R coalition that has a stranglehold right now would never stand for it, as it would give non-D-and-R candidates equal footing for success.

  The first year I lived where I do I searched online for information about the local candidates and their positions. That was really difficult to find, the best available information was what was printed in the local paper 2 days before the election, and that was pretty superficial. I did come across a website the night before the election which showed how much was donated to local candidates and more importantly in my mind, specifically by whom. Searching about the donors turned up a lot more info and made up my mind in most cases. Unfortunately, after the first election that website vanished.

  Teaching civics in schools so people know what the various positions do and why they are voting for those positions might help as well.

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• Re:Self-reporting, and accuracy Re:Self-reporting, and accuracy (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:36PM (1 child)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Thursday August 30 2018, @11:36PM (#728491) Journal

  Searching about the donors turned up a lot more info and made up my mind in most cases. Unfortunately, after the first election that website vanished.

  Open Secrets is pretty good for campaign finance information. [opensecrets.org]

  Ballotpedia is ok for the basic details of most elections. [ballotpedia.org] It tells you names and ballot numbers and stuff so you can do further research.

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  • Re:Self-reporting, and accuracy (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday September 02 2018, @09:59PM

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Sunday September 02 2018, @09:59PM (#729662)

    They're good for the national and big state elections, the site I had found covered all the local municipal and county races.

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