Students who don't have a car can catch a free ride to vote this week.
Early voting for the Republican Presidential Preference Primary and Gainesville city elections will continue today and run until Saturday. Voters can cast their ballots at the Supervisor of Elections County Administration Building, the Tower Road Branch Library and the Millhopper Branch Library.
Free rides given by members of Gainesville Students for a Democratic Society will leave from Plaza of the Americas between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m today until Friday. Students can sign up at the organization's table on the plaza at any time, said Michela Martinazzi, co-leader of Gainesville SDS.
Once the club has a group of two or three people, a car will take them downtown to vote and bring them back to the plaza.
UF College Democrats will give free rides to and and from downtown on Wednesday and Thursday. One car will be leaving from the Reitz Union parking loop at the start of every class period beginning at 10:40 a.m., said Erin Murphy, president of the club.
Murphy, a 21-year-old environmental science senior, said she encourages students to sign up beforehand on the organization's website at ufdemocrats.org, but it is not required.
"Students are Gainesville residents," said Martinazzi, a 19-year-old art history sophomore. "They need to care about how the city is taking care of them."
