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Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day (consumerist.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Consumerist: Lyft, Uber, Zipcar, and Maven have unveiled a variety of discounts and promotions aimed at enabling voters to get to the polls on Tuesday. The ride-hailing service [Uber] has teamed up with Google to create an in-app feature that aims to assist voters in locating their poling place and then getting there. "Given the important decision people around the country will make on November 8th, we wanted to make getting to and from your polling place easier than ever," the company notes in a blog post on the feature. Uber will be promoting the offer throughout Election Day with reminder alerts to users. Select Lyft users will receive 45% off their Election Day trip to the polls, The Verge reports, noting that getting back from your polling place will cost full price. The company said it would send emails Sunday night to customers in eligible areas, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Nashville, New York City and New Jersey, Orange County, CA, Philadelphia, Portland, OR, Phoenix, Raleigh, NC, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. If you're determined to drive yourself to the polls, but don't have a car, Zipcar is offering members an alternative: a free rental. The service will make more than 7,000 cars available for free between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday. During that time, members of the service can reserve a free car through the company's app or website. Maven -- the ride-sharing business from General Motors -- will offer riders $5 off all day, a spokesperson tells The Detroit Free press.
But since you're black, the drivers won't pick you up anyway (runs from the room screeming)!
Bye!
but you'll pay for the return trip for four years
Select users will receive 45% off their Election Day trip to the polls
The ones in the demographics likely to vote for the right candidate?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
What they should do is offer free rides from bars. That's where most of the voters will be.
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the only sane option
Is it me, or does that list look like highly Democratic leaning cities? This smells more of a get out the Democrat vote effort than any sort of noble cause to just increase voter turnout overall.
Let me guess: the eligible areas have been selected because a higher voter turnout there favors a given candidate over the other one?
When will see the gypsy cab companies' leadership go to prison for breaking the law, including 18 U.S. Code 597:
I'm pretty sure this activity is a blatant violation of this law, but it's not like we'll ever see it enforced because APPS.
Let me guess the number one map search will be, the location of polling stations relative to where they actually want to go ;D.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Phoenix, Dallas, and Orange County are on the list, but since there's not a lot of question how those states will go, it's unlikely to change much. They're aiming for MI, NC, FL, and PA.
I'll bet Uber drivers love this - I've rarely had a driver who could legally vote in America. (Yeah, I guess I'm one of the few people who talks to their drivers.)
By limiting the areas that this offer applies to they may be tampering.
"eligible areas, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, NC, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit,
Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans, Nashville, New York City and New Jersey, Orange County, CA,
Philadelphia, Portland, OR, Phoenix, Raleigh, NC, San Diego, and Washington, D.C."
The service is not cash and ride it requires a smart phone ($$) and credit card. .... A demographic review seems to be in order.
Drivers can refuse to give rides
I expect this to be given some review especially in how it shows up on the company tax returns.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't. Mark Twain.
Well, to be fair, just about any big city is a Democrat stronghold. So, yeah, I guess? Not too surprising, as it seems like many tech millionaires lean to the left.
You should see who my neighbors in Seattle keep electing. It's pretty entertaining to see left-leaning Democrats on the city council being berated by hard-core Socialists also on the council for not being liberal enough. Did you know they actually spend city money to paint crosswalks in rainbow colors? Hooray, right?! Yet a lot of Seattleites still can't get decent internet, largely because of local laws, bureaucracy, and corporate foot-dragging. Seriously, in Seattle. Rather entertaining to watch from a slight distance, so long as I don't have to actually live in the city itself!
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A smartphone capable of hailing an uber is $30. Show those people a $30 car and they'll buy it.
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