By Business insider Melia Robinson
Election Day, voters across America will wait in lines
outside polling places that will make them want to tear their
hair out. The good news: a grassroots initiative called Pizza to the Polls aims to make voting
less miserable with pizza. The nonpartisan site has been taking
in reports of long lines at polling places and reportedly
delivering free pizzas to hungry Americans.
“Americans are hungry for democracy and are turning out in
record numbers to vote,” the Pizza to the Polls website says.
“But that means long lines and sometimes empty stomachs, which
might discourage these brave patriots from performing their civic
duty.” As of Tuesday at noon eastern time, Pizza to the Polls
received over $16,000 in contributions and delivered 268 pizzas,
according to the
website. Voters can hop over to the website, submit a link from Twitter or
Instagram that verifies the insanity and location of a polling
place, and hit send. Those wishing to make a contribution to the
cause can donate $10 for one pizza and up to $100 for 10 pizzas.
So far, the group claims to have sent pizza to Cincinnati, Miami,
Chicago, and other US cities. Two web developers living in Portland, Oregon, are behind the
giveaway. Scott Duncombe and Noah Manger spun the
initiative out of the unusually-named political action
committee Americans
Against Insecure Billionaires With Tiny Hands PAC. They used leftover funds and new donations to order pizzas
from local delivery places across the US and put pies in the
hands of voters, The Huffington Post
reports. “I had access to that fund, and we didn’t have any plans
for it,” Duncombe, a software engineer for a financial tech
company and treasurer of the anti-Trump super-PAC, told The
Huffington Post. “This felt like a good way to make sure
that money went to a good cause.”