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Uber and Lyft exist.
Most cities provide free public transport to and from polls on Election Day.
Mail in ballots are available in many jurisdictions.
Stop making excuses for people who can’t be bothered to vote.
Telling people to stop making excuses for other people doesnt help, if voting is less convenient for some people, then some fraction of those people arent going to bother. Making it into a moral failing for those people is just making excuses for flaws in the system. Should they bother? Sure, but what people should do isnt relevant here, the effects of what they actually do is.
People who couldn’t be bothered to get off their ass to vote got us Trump. Stop infantilizing lazy voters. There are plenty of free options to get to the polls.
I don't disagree that people being lazy and apathetic is a huge issue... but so is disenfranchisement. Telling people who have less recourse in voting than others to "just suck it up" is about as unhelpful as it gets.