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Voting
the national interest
12/9/2018
voting rights
11/6/2018
Florida Passes Amendment Restoring Voting Rights to 1.5 Million Felons The passage of Amendment 4 spares former felons from an invasive, complicated hearing process, and could give Democrats a significant 2020 boost.
pokemon go to the polls
11/6/2018
There Will Never Be a Good Voting Meme Again Relating to these memes – like “me voting in 2016 versus me voting in 2018” – means subjecting yourself to a depressing way of following politics.
People Are Having a Lot of Trouble Voting Voters throughout the country have been faced with long lines and technical difficulties.
12 Young People on Why They Probably Won’t Vote Only a third of Americans ages 18 to 29 say they will cast a ballot next month. Here, we ask why.
How Restaurants Help, and Empower, Their Employees to Vote “If I want people to vote, I have to enable them to vote.”
get out the vote
10/28/2018
If Will Ferrell Knocks on Your Door, Georgia, He Wants You to Vote, Not Hang Out He’s just the latest celebrity to throw their weight behind Georgia gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams.
Meghan Markle Talks About the Importance of Voting The duchess gets political in talking about the suffragist movement.
last night on late night
10/12/2018
Jaboukie Young-White Reminds Trevor Noah That He’s Old — As Is Our Voting System “Can’t you just Postmates the election to me? Like, oh, Tony will be here in 20 minutes with my ballot and my seaweed salad? Dope.”
New Political Taylor Swift Uses Her AMAs Platform to Politely Remind You to Vote “This award, and every single award given out tonight, were voted on by the people. And you know what else is voted on by the people?”
A Crazy Number of People Just Registered to Vote Because of Taylor Swift Within a day of Swift’s Instagram post, more people registered to vote than in the entire month of August.
Billy Eichner Urges You to Vote. If Not for Your Country, Then for Post Malone. Post has had a real rough month and change. Will voting in the midterms help? Certainly can’t hurt!
West Virginia to Experiment With Mobile Phone Voting by Overseas Troops It’s been tried by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, so what could go wrong?
Billy Eichner and Funny or Die Team Up to Launch “Glam Up the Midterms” During his appearance on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Eichner revealed that he’s teamed up with Funny or Die to launch a campaign […]
Researchers Accidentally Found One Way to Help Kids Grow Up to Be Voters Children who were in a program designed to help develop social skills were more likely to vote when they grew up, an unintended but happy side effect.
This Might Be the Best Idea for Turning Out More Voters in U.S. Elections A political scientist is arguing it’s time to put the party back in elections.
Report: Russian Hackers Targeted Voting Systems in 39 States A Bloomberg report says the breach was much more widespread than originally thought.
justin timberlake
4/18/2017
Citizen Justin Timberlake Inspires Tennessee Bill Legalizing Voter Selfies Last fall, Timberlake was on the wrong side of the law when he took a picture at his polling station.
last night on late night
3/16/2017
Mozart in the Jungle ’s Lola Kirke: Taylor Swift May As Well Have Voted for Trump“For me, it’s really important to elevate voices and causes that don’t get as much attention with whatever attention I get.”
economic anxiety
11/17/2016
Paris Hilton Voted for Donald Trump The white working class has spoken.
Read These Inspiring Thank-you Notes for Suffragist Ida B. Wells “Thank you for your sacrifice and the struggle to bring equality to our nation.”
Who Is Taylor Swift Voting For? We’re going to need a voting-booth selfie to corroborate this story.
the swift pr machine
11/8/2016
Chance the Rapper Led a Parade to the Polls Somebody, start sketching out the storyboard for Chance the Rapper’s Voting Day Parade immediately.
It’s Time to Put Eric Trump in Selfie Jail It’s terrible that Eric Trump must be thrown in selfie prison for life for taking an illegal ballot selfie, but the law is clear.
YMCA Offering Free Child Care in Some Locations for Election Day The two-hour drop-off service will be available for kids from age 2 to 12.
youuuu bettaaaaa vote
11/7/2016
get out the vote
11/7/2016
Constance Wu Will Dance If You Vote Hey, you know all those other elections on the ballot?
social contagion
11/7/2016
Last Week Tonight Explains Why We Vote TuesdayRemember to wear comfortable shoes and pack a snack.
How to Share Your Voting Experience Legally Check this list before you plan on bringing your phone into the booth.
How to Make Sure You Don’t Screw Up Your Ballot You should have a plan before you set out for your polling place, because it’s surprisingly easy to make mistakes.
The Sneaky, Powerful Psychology Behind the ‘I Voted’ Sticker One of the biggest reasons people show up to vote: peer pressure.
Even More A-Listers Want You to Vote Please register to vote, for Stanley Tucci’s sake.
A Naked, Deranged Katy Perry Really Wants You to Vote Zip up your adult onesie and exercise your constitutional right.
tie-ins for the people
9/26/2016
Birth of a Nation Wants You to Register to VoteLet’s all go to the lobby / And register to vote.
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