Uber Free Rides to Vote 2026: No Offer Posted, Lyft and Lime Codes

These 2026 Election Day ride offers have ended: Lyft’s VOTE26 code and the transit agencies’ free fares ran only through Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, and Lime’s HEADCOUNT code ran Oct. 24 to Nov. 3, so for what came next see when we will know the 2026 results.

Lyft’s VOTE26 code took 50% off one ride to the polls, up to $10, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, and Lime’s HEADCOUNT code gave two free bike or scooter rides of up to 30 minutes each through Nov. 3. Eighteen transit agencies ran fare-free service for Nov. 3, from LA Metro and the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) in Houston to the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART) in the Detroit suburbs and the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority (MAX) in Alabama, each with its own rules; 17 posted it on their own websites and Wave Transit in Wilmington, North Carolina, was reported by two newsrooms. As of Nov. 2, Uber had announced no 2026 Election Day ride discount. This guide lists only programs we confirmed in official sources and is not a complete nationwide list.

Ride codes at a glance

Code	Who	What you get	When
VOTE26	Lyft app	50% off one ride to a polling place, up to $10	Tue., Nov. 3, 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time
HEADCOUNT	Lime app	Two free rides, up to 30 minutes each	Oct. 24 to Nov. 3
110326	LA Metro Bike Share (choose “1-Ride”)	One free 30-minute ride	Tue., Nov. 3
VOTENOV3	Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) GoPass app (GoLink)	Free Adult Local Day Pass	Tue., Nov. 3
VOTE26	Trinity Metro GoPass app	Free Local Day Pass	Oct. 19-30 (early voting)
VOTE26	MAX Connect app (Birmingham On-Demand)	Two free rides, one there and one back	Tue., Nov. 3
“I Voted” pass	CapMetro Bikeshare app (Austin)	Free 60-minute bike checkout	Election Day

Three different programs used the code VOTE26, each in its own app. The free printable on this page puts every code and free-fare rule on one page.

Lyft: code VOTE26

Detail	What Lyft says
Discount	50% off, up to $10, one ride
When	Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026, 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. local time
Rides covered	One Lyft car ride, or one Lyft scooter ride, or one Lyft-operated bikeshare ride in select markets
Not covered	Lyft Black rides, including the larger Black vehicles, and tips
Where to	A polling place where Lyft operates in the U.S.; a registered ballot drop box only in vote-by-mail states or states that allow ballots to be returned to drop boxes
How	Preload VOTE26 in the Lyft app before or on Nov. 3; one code and one ride per person, limited quantity, not combined with other credits

Lyft also worked with nonprofit partners that gave out their own ride codes: the League of Women Voters, VoteRiders, Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote), the National Council on Aging, the National Down Syndrome Society, the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition, When We All Vote, Civic Alliance and Power the Polls. Lyft said the APIAVote and National Council on Aging programs reached early voting as well; those codes followed each partner’s own terms and may already have been claimed, while VOTE26 itself was good only on Nov. 3. The National Council on Aging (NCOA) said on its Lyft page that, as of Nov. 2, all 500 of its ride codes (NCOAELECTION26) had been claimed. The offer was not tied to voting or to how you voted, Lyft’s terms said.

Lime: code HEADCOUNT

Lime’s “Lime to the Polls” page said the HEADCOUNT code was valid from Oct. 24 to Nov. 3, 2026, wherever there was a Lime bike or scooter nearby. Its terms gave two free rides of up to 30 minutes each, one offer per rider, and said the rides could go to a polling place, work or anywhere else in the service area. No voter registration, voting or proof of voting was required. The code could not be combined with LimePrime, Lime Access, Group Rides or other discounts, and unused value did not carry over. Lime’s terms page did not list the eligible cities or a dollar cap per ride. We could not re-read Lime’s site on Nov. 2. Because the code started Oct. 24, it also covered early voting.

Free transit on Nov. 3: announcements we verified

Each of these agencies posted its Election Day plan on its own website, except Wave Transit, which a Wilmington TV station (WECT) and Port City Daily reported; we checked them between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. Regular schedules and service areas applied unless noted. This list covers only announcements we could confirm; larger systems that had not posted one by Nov. 2 are not listed.

Agency	What was free on Tuesday, Nov. 3	What you needed
LA Metro (Los Angeles County)	Buses and trains; Metro Micro rides; a free 30-minute Metro Bike Share ride	Nothing for bus and rail. Micro: book in the app, no code. Bike Share: choose “1-Ride,” enter 110326, credit or debit card required; longer rides are charged
Big Blue Bus (Santa Monica, Calif.)	All routes, systemwide	Nothing
Houston METRO (Harris County, Texas)	Rides to and from your polling place on METRORail, Local Bus, Community Connector, METROLift and METRO curb2curb	Present your voter ID, METRO says; Fox 26 (Oct. 23) reported riders need to show their voter registration card, so bring both if you can and confirm at ridemetro.org
DART (Dallas)	Buses, trains, GoLink, the Dallas Streetcar, paratransit, the Silver Line and the Trinity Railway Express (TRE) between Union Station in Dallas and CentrePort station	A valid voter registration card. GoLink: code VOTENOV3 in GoPass. Paratransit: book at (214) 515-7272
Trinity Metro (Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas)	Rides to or from the polls on buses, TEXRail, On-Demand including paratransit, and the TRE within Tarrant County	Tell the driver or conductor you are traveling to or from a voting location
CapMetro (Austin, Texas)	All CapMetro services, bus and rail; CapMetro Bikeshare’s “I Voted” pass for a 60-minute checkout	Bikeshare needs a credit card (not debit), with a temporary $24 hold
Cincinnati Metro (Ohio)	Fixed-route buses, Access paratransit for eligible riders and MetroNow! on-demand trips within its five zones	Nothing
SMART (Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties, Michigan)	Fixed routes, SMART Flex and paratransit; WDIV ClickOnDetroit (Oct. 28) adds Connector Services	Book Connector and paratransit trips in advance
MAX Transit (Birmingham, Alabama)	Fixed Route, Birmingham Xpress bus rapid transit and paratransit, all service day; two On-Demand rides	On-Demand: code VOTE26 in the MAX Connect app. Paratransit: reserve both directions by 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, at 205-521-0101
Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority (COMET), Columbia, South Carolina	Round trips to and from polling places on fixed-route buses and its paratransit service	Paratransit is for eligible riders
Mountain Line (Morgantown, West Virginia)	All local routes	The Grey Line to Pittsburgh, Clarksburg and other cities is not included
Hampton Roads Transit (HRT), Virginia	Buses, light rail, ferry, paratransit and OnDemand rides	Nothing
Regional Transportation District (RTD), Denver	Zero fares to reach voting centers and ballot boxes on bus, rail, paratransit and FlexRide	Nothing, RTD says in its Oct. 22 notice
Maryland Transit Administration (MTA), Baltimore area	Fares waived all day Tuesday, Nov. 3 on Local Bus, Metro SubwayLink, Light RailLink and Mobility, per CBS Baltimore (Oct. 30); The Baltimore Sun reported buses, Light Rail and more	MTA’s own notice is “Ride Free to the Polls.” The Maryland Area Regional Commuter (MARC) train and Commuter Bus are not confirmed as free
North County Transit District (NCTD), San Diego County	Coaster, Sprinter, Breeze, Flex, Lift and NCTD+	Nothing, per NCTD’s Free Ride Day alert
Marin Transit (Marin County, Calif.)	All trips on local buses; Marin Access is not included	Nothing
Oneida Nation Transit (Wisconsin)	Free rides to and from polling locations within the service area on Nov. 3, per its own site	You must live in the service area; call 920-496-5770
Wave Transit (Wilmington, N.C.)	Fares waived Nov. 3; Port City Daily lists fixed-route buses, Seahawk Shuttle, RideMICRO and Dial-A-Ride	WECT (Oct. 30) and Port City Daily (Nov. 2) reported it; Wave’s own site was not reached. Phone 910-343-0106

CapMetro’s alert page said it offered fare-free rides on Election Day, Nov. 3. DART’s voter registration card rule was a condition of the free fare, separate from what Texas requires to vote.

LA Metro stations also hosted ballot drop boxes for Los Angeles County voters; drop-off deadlines elsewhere are set by your own county, listed in our mail ballot deadlines by state. The LA Metro rides follow a 2019 board decision to offer them on every federal and statewide election day.

Reported by local news; the agencies’ own sites did not confirm them as of Nov. 2: Metro (MetroLINK), Davenport CitiBus and Bettendorf Transit in the Quad Cities, plus Muscatine’s MuscaBus, all free on Nov. 3, according to KWQC; the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT), free fares on Nov. 3, according to WDIV (DDOT’s site was blocked to us); Rochester Public Transit in Minnesota, free rides to polling places, according to KTTC (we found no notice on its site); Rockford Mass Transit District (MTD) in Illinois, free rides Nov. 3 from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m., according to Rockford News First on Oct. 27 (its site showed no notice); and Beloit Transit in Wisconsin, all routes free Tuesday except the Beloit-Janesville Express, according to Rockford News First on Nov. 2. The agencies’ own sites had not confirmed these as of Nov. 2.

Free rides during early voting

Trinity Metro in Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Texas, was free during early voting, Oct. 19-30, 2026, in addition to Election Day. Riders entered code VOTE26 in the GoPass app for one free Local Day Pass, or asked for a paper day pass at the customer service kiosk at Fort Worth Central Station. On-Demand riders going to an early voting site in their zone got a free round trip, and Trinity Metro Bikes riders could use VOTE26 in the bikes app. No ID or proof of voting was needed.

Lime’s HEADCOUNT code, valid from Oct. 24, also worked on early voting days. Which states voted early, and until when, is in early voting 2026: which states are voting now.

Uber

Uber posted no Election Day ride discount for 2026 in its official newsroom; as of Nov. 2 its most recent post, dated Oct. 22, was not about voting, and its help site had nothing either, and no offer had appeared by Election Day, Nov. 3. For the 2024 election, Uber’s Go Vote! tile in the app took 50% off, up to $10, one ride to a polling place on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024, excluding Reserve rides, the company said at the time. That offer did not carry over to 2026.

Before you ride

• Confirm where you vote. Your polling place is set by your home address and can change from one election to the next, USAGov says, so check your state or local election office’s official lookup before the trip. Our sample ballot by ZIP code guide links every state’s lookup.
• Check the hours. Polls close as early as 6 p.m. local time in some states; see what time polls close. The Lyft code stopped at 10 p.m., and Mountain Line’s free rides ran only while polls were open.
• Know your state’s ID rules. A voter registration card is generally not required to vote, USAGov notes, though states set their own ID rules. In Dallas the card was what got you the free DART fare.
• Book paratransit early. Free paratransit still needed the usual reservation; Birmingham’s deadline was 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2, and DART asked riders to call ahead.
• Voting by mail? If you vote by mail, see where you can still drop off your ballot on Nov. 3.

Whether you get time off to vote, and what was open on Nov. 3, is in is Election Day a holiday. Plan the day on our November 2026 printable calendar or a weekly planner.