Skidaway Island Democrats

3 weeks ago

FREE RIDES TO THE POLLS IN CHATHAM COUNTY
(source: League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia)

1. The People’s Agenda
Request Online: ridetothepoll.com/ (no S’es on ride or poll)
Request by Phone: 877.524.8683 - call 9am to 5pm

If you call, they will schedule the ride while you’re on the phone. If you fill out the online form, they will get back to you. Please give them at least a day’s notice. Once scheduled, you will also get a call confirming that the driver has been dispatched. If they do not have one of their own drivers available, they will send a rideshare. They will schedule a roundtrip. As of now they are only planning to offer rides during weekdays.

2. League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia
Request by Phone: 912.328.3953. (Nina Altschller). Please call during reasonable hours and leave a message if Nina does not pick up.

The League has local volunteers available to provide rides to the polls and back. Same day rides sometimes available, as is scheduling in advance. Available through all of early voting,
including weekends, and on Election Day.

3. Savannah Building Futures
Request by Phone: 912.414.4206 (Rev. Alan Mainor). If not available, call 912.495.5441 (Rev. Jerome Irwin Sr.) - These are real people so please only call during reasonable hours.

They will be running van routes to the polls in conjunction with New Georgia Project. The routes are being planned now so it’s best to call early to schedule in advance. They will ask for your name, address, and phone number and when they pick you up they will ask you to fill out a short consent form confirming that it’s ok for them to give you a ride.

4. New Georgia Project
Request Online: newgeorgiaproject.org/rides/
Request by Phone: 800.874.1541 (leave a message)

This is a state-wide project run out of Atlanta and relying on Lyft and local contractors to provide rides. In Savannah, van rides will be provided by Savannah Building Futures. Their website also says they will be providing individual Lyft rides on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays 9am -4pm during early voting, and on Election Day from 7am to 7pm. Please give them a couple days to respond to your message. If you try this service, please let us know if it was successful and if you have any details to add.

5. Georgia ADAPT
Request Online: roll2thepolls.vote/request-a-ride/
Request by Phone: Call or Text Zan directly at 678.358.9540 - Zan is a real person so please only call her during reasonable hours - before 8pm, weekends OK, text preferred.

This is a statewide disability rights group that will provide rides specifically to folks who need a wheelchair-accessible van, or who use a walker and need significant help with the transfer, or who have developmental disabilities that would make it difficult for them to be in a van with a lot of other people. They are offering rides now, through all of early voting including weekends, and through Election Day. Please give them at least 3 days’ notice to schedule. They will schedule an exact time and place for pick-up and provide a round-trip ride. Remember, folks with a disability may go to the front of the line so should not need to wait long to vote. Drivers are paid and have mobility-accessible vans.

6. RideShare2Vote
Request Online: booking.rides2vote.com/
Request by Phone: 888.977.2250

This is a nationwide project of the Democratic Party, though no one will be turned away. Rides will begin on October 28th and continue through Election Day. They will send a local volunteer
driver to pick you up and bring you home. They will schedule a pick up at a specific time and location, will call to let you know the driver has been dispatched, and the driver will call to let you know when they have arrived. Mobility accessible rides will be available on Election Day only. Schedule rides in advance.
(NB: We reached out to representatives of the Chatham County GOP and were told they are not offering a ride service for this election.)

7. NAACP, Savannah Branch
Request by Phone: 912.233.4161

These are rides on Election Day ONLY. Just call the local branch office on Election Day and they will send out a volunteer to give you a ride.

6. Chatham Area Transit
CAT has offered free fare on Election Day in the past. I have not yet confirmed whether they will be doing that this year on November 5th. I will update this as soon as I know.

Compiled by Michelle Solomon, volunteer with League of Women Voters of Coastal Georgia
October 15th, 2024, 1:10pm
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Skidaway Island Democrats

3 weeks ago

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is making available to voters a summary of the statewide referendum and two proposed constitutional amendments that will appear on the General Election ballot.

Georgians will have the opportunity to cast a Yes or No vote on both proposed amendments and the referendum that the General Assembly approved during its current term for voter consideration.

The wording of the ballot questions is available on sample ballots found on My Voter Page.

Summaries prepared by Attorney General Christopher Carr, Secretary Raffensperger, and Legislative Counsel Betsy Howerton, and the actual amendments, can be found online here [link in comments, below].

Booklets with printed summaries are available to voters at the Secretary of State’s Office and at the office of each county’s election superintendent. Anyone may request a copy by writing to Secretary of State’s Office, Elections Division, Suite 802 West Tower, 2 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SE, Atlanta, GA, 30334.

Copies of the amendments also appeared in legal advertising in every county’s legal organ. ... See MoreSee Less