Founders Story- A Mom, a Sister, a Daughter, a Woman Getting Voters to the Polls

Sarah Kovich, M.Ed., is a lifelong Texas Democrat. With a Master’s Degree in Education, Sarah has received awards for her community-building, communications skills, and political work throughout her career. Having been successful in starting and running her consulting firm for 25 years, Sarah built the first Political Advocacy Team for the Texas Mental Health Counselors Association in the mid to late 90′ as laws threatened the livelihood of Professional Counselors in Texas. Her career led her to turn her energy and passion full-time to democratic activism in 2017. Since then, Sarah has been at the helm of the Rideshare2Vote Organizations.

Starting the all-volunteer Rideshare2Vote LLC in 2018, Sarah envisioned helping non-voting Democrats to participate and engage. Today, Rideshare2Vote has grown to a paid staff of 25 and is the only Democratic partisan Rides2Vote Program in the United States operating year-round in local, state, special, runoff, and national elections. The Get Out the Vote (GOTV) focuses on nonvoting registered Democrats and offers them a reminder, invitation, and, ultimately, transportation to the polls in every election.

Rideshare2Vote is not your usual Rides2Vote program. We are a modern, tech-savvy voter outreach team focused on connecting with non-voting and sporadic-voting Democrats. Rideshare2Vote has grown into a seasoned national team with processes and turnout, breaking records among the voters we touch. Our team is based across the country in key states — Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. We are adding Wisconsin, starting in February of 2023, and Pennsylvania to build our program in preparation for the presidential election in 2024.

Sarah has led her teams to ensure that thousands of Democrats have transportation with nearly two million points of outreach to low-propensity voters to encourage them to turn out in 2022. In 2022, over two thousand new volunteers were added to our program, with 945 volunteers completing training and 904 of whom were drivers. Through Sarah’s leadership, Rideshare2Vote averages up to a 15% turnout rate among low-propensity voters contacted.

In 2019, it became apparent there was another pathway Rideshare2Vote must engage. Non-profit, nonpartisan organizations that register, canvass, and ask people to vote. The 501c3, non-profit, non-partisan arm is Rideshare2Vote Aware, and Sarah, as Executive Director, has led the organization to develop the only national ADA-accessible wheelchair Rides2Vote Program in the US.  In addition, under her leadership, the paid internship program started as a class of 4 and now has grown to welcome a class of 10 for the Spring 2023 semester.

Enough about the paper me. Now, let me tell you who I am as I sit here wanting to engage you, wanting you to want to learn more about our team’s work. I am a mom, a sister, a daughter, and a woman who desperately wants people to have their voices heard at the polls. My life work is now in progress, and my legacy is in play. My heart and soul has gone into developing this idea from conception to implementation. And I have many years ahead to increase voter turnout with your support.

Our work is critical, and your support of our work is most critical to keep us rolling around the streets of America to find voters that want a voice. So, please GIVE NOW!