Patrick Mahomes helps pay to use stadium for voting location
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City Chiefs MVP Quarterback Patrick Mahomes made sure that people could vote in Tuesday’s election.
He split the cost of using Arrowhead Stadium so it could be used as a polling location, CNN reported.
The remainder of the cost was covered by the team itself.
“I thought it was very important not only just to get as many people out to vote as possible but also to use a place as Arrowhead where we have a lot of fun, show a lot of love and unity where people (are) coming together, and use that as a place where we can come together and vote and use our voice,” Mahomes said on the “Huddle and Flow” podcast, according to CNN.
The team president, Mark Donovan said the election board said there were too many hurdles to overcome, one of which was the money needed to buy new voting machines.
“We finally had to go to them and say ‘What’s it going to take,'” Donovan told CNN. “And that’s really what launched the idea of purchasing new machines. And so we, the Chiefs organization, the Hunt family and Patrick Mahomes and his 15 and the Mahomies Foundation came together and said, ‘If that’s what it’s going to take, we’re committed to this point. Let’s go.’”
The machines are expected to continue to be used for the next 10 years.
The team also launched a Vote at Arrowhead webpage to say who was eligible to vote at the stadium.
