Need a Lyft to the polls? The ride-hailing app is once again offering free or discounted rides this election season

With disruptions to mail voting systems and other election-related problems potentially sidelining some voters this election season, Lyft is offering, well, a lift! For the sixth straight election season, the ride-hailing company’s “Lyft Up Voting Access Program” will offer voters discounted rides to polling places on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. Lyft’s program, which began in 2014, is available to anyone across the United States—from the streets of Manhattan to the wilds of Alaska—who enters the public discount code “VOTE26” to book a ride before November 3. That will give users a 50% discount, or up to $10, on a ride to their polling place. The program also partners with various nonprofits and civic organizations to help increase access to voting booths, a list that includes the League of Women Voters, National Council on Aging, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, and Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. “Voting access is and has been a priority of Lyft for more than a decade,” says Christine Campigotto, Lyft’s senior director of policy impact and operations. “We want to make sure that transportation is not a barrier to voting for anyone.” Campigotto says that the…