{"id":54052,"date":"2022-11-01T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54052"},"modified":"2022-11-01T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T18:31:08","slug":"asian-and-pacific-islander-american-vote-apiavote-partners-with-lyft-to-offer-free-and-heavily-discounted-rides-to-aapis-for-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=54052","title":{"rendered":"Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) Partners with Lyft to Offer Free and Heavily Discounted Rides to AAPIs for Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C. &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Today, Asian and\u00a0<\/em><em>Pacific<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0Islander American Vote is happy to announce that, in partnership with Lyft, we will provide access to\u00a0free and heavily discounted transportation for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to get to the polls during the upcoming election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APIAVote is proud to have made rides available throughout early voting, and will make rides available again on Election Day. With Lyft\u2019s support, APIAVote will be able to ensure Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are able to be part of the political process and create impact by providing transportation for civic engagement in a reliable and\u00a0affordable way.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership is part of Lyft\u2019s Voting Access program, which aims to remove transportation\u00a0barriers associated with voting. In addition to working with nonprofit partners like us, Lyft\u00a0is providing access to discounted rideshare, bike and scooter rides to the general public to make\u00a0it as easy as possible for anyone and everyone to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lyft\u2019s Voting Access Program is an initiative of Lyft Up, Lyft\u2019s comprehensive effort to expand\u00a0transportation access to those who need it most. Through Lyft Up, Lyft provides access to free\u00a0and discounted rides to help communities across the country get to job interviews, access\u00a0healthy food, connect with critical resources in the aftermath of disasters, and more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Access to transportation is one of the greatest barriers to voting for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders \u2013 whether its to get to one&#8217;s polling location, or a mail-in ballot dropbox,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Christine Chen, Executive Director of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote<\/strong>. &#8220;We partnered with Lyft in 2020 to fill this gap, and are proud to do so again in 2022. Together, we will empower AAPI communities and ensure no member of our communities is prevented from conducting their civic duty due to lack to transportation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that everyone\u2019s voice \u2013 and vote \u2013 deserves to be heard, and transportation should\u00a0never be a barrier,\u201d said\u00a0<strong>Lyft\u2019s Director of Social Impact, Lisa Boyd<\/strong>. \u201cLyft is proud to support\u00a0APIAVote&#8217;s efforts to make getting to the polls as seamless as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211;\u00a0Today, Asian and\u00a0Pacific\u00a0\u00a0Islander American&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54053,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54052\/revisions\/54053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}