Lyft Swoops In To Help Dodge City Vote After The Sole Polling Place Was Moved

[deminks]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lyft-offering-rides-to-polls-after-polling-place-moved

In the days after officials in Dodge City, Kansas decided to move the sole polling place for the city out of town, more than a mile away from the nearest bus stop, corporate sponsors have stepped in to help voters cast their ballots.


According to a Monday Fortune report, Lyft in particular has joined with a group called Voto Latino to get voters in the majority Hispanic city to the poll.

The single polling place serves over 27,000 residents.

Per Fortune, the rides are also being subsidized with the help of Steve Madden, Johnnie Walker and Act Blue.

http://fortune.com/2018/10/22/lyft-voto-latino-gotv-dodge-city/

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. I love Lyft!

[Me.]

3. KR

[pennylane100]

4. How can it be legal to remove a polling place just before an election.

There has to be trail from the "officials" who put this into motion and their "supporters" It sounds like a crime of trying to influence an election. I hope it gets investigated.

[ProudLib72]

5. IOKIYAR

Surely they came up with a barely tenable excuse.

[LiberalFighter]

7. Better question would be how can move the polling place

outside of the district(s) it is suppose to serve? Especially completely outside of the city?

[Scarsdale]

10. Marshall Matt Dillon

would never allow this!!

[Land Shark]

6. When I drive Lyft i personally give free rides for voter registration.

Glad to see Lyft doing this.

[geretogo]

8. Lyft , one of a thousand points of light . Please keep shining .

[djacq]

9. Keep up the swooping!

Thanks Lyft?

[BigGermanGuy]

11. I'll be having a glass of

johnnie blue tonight as a thank you.

[Cryptoad]

12. HOws abt some shuttle buses?????????

[diva77]

13. Off the charts outrage!!! Precincts are supposed to be "local" with no more than around 2000

people. Consolidation of voting locations increases opportunity for election fraud -- plus obvious fraud of denying accessibility to the voting location altogether.

[IronLionZion]

14. Lyft is a better company than Uber

I use Lyft when I can but some markets only have Uber.

[calimary]

19. Well, this convinces me to use Lyft if ever I need a lift!

[IronLionZion]

20. Uber Joins Lyft In Giving Free Rides to the Polls on Election Day

I stand corrected in this case, Uber is doing good.

http://fortune.com/2018/10/05/uber-lyft-free-rides-polls-election-day/

[bonniebgood]

15. Moved out of the district? Now they can say, you can't vote here because

you don't live in this district. WOW

[hostalover]

16. Unbelievable how low they can go.

[Ligyron]

17. The shit they get away with...

Someday though...

[rgbecker]

18. One (1) Polling place for 27,000 population!!??!!

How does that compare to your place of residence?

Here the town of 3500 has one polling place. Never have had to stand in line or spend more than 5 minutes from parking the car to getting back in the car.

Yes....all white people.