Hundreds of companies are giving employees paid time off to vote in upcoming midterm elections
October 24, 2018 at 10:05 AM EDT
More than 300 companies across the U.S. are encouraging employees to vote in upcoming elections. Brands like Walmart, Tyson Foods and PayPal are supporting the Time to Vote campaign, a nonpartisan effort to increase voter turnout, which was recently as low as 36 percent.