GSA says 337K Taylor Swift referrals have come to vote.gov
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This is just from taylor swift's specific link and does not include any other traffic to vote.gov
But but JD Vance said no one would be influenced by her!
Even more ironic, he said no one would be swayed by an out of touch billionaire that can't identify with them...
Really? Holy crap. If course, Trump is NOT a billionaire. Pretty sure that's why he has never released his tax returns. He embarrassed at how little money he has, compared to what he claims.
Someone is going to get "Swift Voted"
That's excellent. Thank you.
How many are from the esteemed nation of PAWANEVMIAZGANC?
I'd guess a few. Swift's background in country means she's got a big fanbase in GA and NC. Even bigger than the other states, I mean.
That's an encouraging sign.
Even a 1% boost in turn out from young people could mean a lot in many races across the country, in swing state country I mentioned or not. Most people aren't Swifties, but chances are young people would have at least a friend of a friend who is one who may motivate the people around them to get involved this election.
quite a swift response
According to Taylor Swift's post, Trump and his propagandists posting fake pictures of Swift implying she was endorsing him is one reason she went ahead and came out with this statement endorsing Harris now, to refute the fake stuff they are circulating. So their stupid plan massively backfired.
Maybe Swift would have come out to endorse Harris at some point anyway, but doing it now gives people more time to get registered before the deadline.
Yeah they pretty much forced her to engage. All because this F.. former president thought he could materialize an endorsement by posting a deepfaked image saying she endorsed him.
I'm sure their "concepts of a plan" had it really all thought out
I know there is work to be done every single day through the election. But just for this moment I'm going to just breathe it all in and enjoy. I think we all earned that.
That's very wise; I'm proud of you for recognising this
I'm just impressed that this wasn't clickbait and that they took the time to filter for her link only. No way to refute it.
Now, if they will actually go vote, is the key.
I think website traffic reports always show the Top X referral links and I'd be shocked if hers wasn't #1.
Different kind of swiftboat in play this election.
Why is there a referral link to vote.gov? And why do you guys need to register in order to vote? In EU you can just go to the voting ballot by being a citizen
In the US there is no "national ID" everything is linked to like other countries. We used to be strongly privacy minded as a country (weird I know). So that as left some rather weird legacy problems. Hence having the register to vote.
Also we have a much different power dynamic between states and the federal government. Our states have a LOT more power than local/regional ones in most counties.
I'm reality, it's mostly absolute chaos. People unwittingly break so many laws everytime they cross a state border. Between helmet laws, small motor, open container, vastly different fire arm regulations, differing vehicular restrictions, legality or illegality of common substances.
That's not even to mention all the interstate stuff managed by the fed. Like traveling accross state lines with a pill organizer is illegal.
The way the electoral roll is managed varies from place to place.
Avoiding automatic voter registration tends to favour the more traditionally conservative demographic; it's racist and classist, but the people who turn up to vote on local electoral issues are too, by and large. It requires engagement to change.
How do they know you are a citizen?
How do they know in what political division your vote should be counted?
For local referenda, how do they know what issues you are eligible to vote on?
Whatever means are in use to get you the right ballot is what you use for "registration".
For germany:
How do they know you are a citizen?
Everybody has an identity card. And you will be sent an election letter which you then show there. It has your Voter-ID and district number on it.
How do they know in what political division your vote should be counted?
Well the voting happens inside the respective districts. Plus you have the number on your letter.
For local referenda, how do they know what issues you are eligible to vote on?
No such thing in germany.
Tldr: at least half of the government doesn't want you to be able to vote because they think you'll vote for the other party. Welcome to America isn't it great.
I'm the state of Illinois you can more or less do this. You just need proof of residency to register day of at the polls. It was very fascinating to see when my wife's registration was removed.
Ok smarty pants let’s see you come up with a better system to give votes to empty land instead of niminorities!
Referral source is a built in feature in browsers that analytics tools can utilize. It does not require any special links.
It just means that a website (almost) always knows the previous page you came from.
[Promotes basic action of American democracy]
"They are cheating!!! That's not fair!!!!"
"If you listen to her, you're stupid and shouldn't vote" is my favorite emotionally abusive narrative.
Fuck these creeps. To anyone that felt inspired by Swift, you deserve to feel empowered.
They should stick to sports, erhm, music, and stay out of politics!
/s if not obvious
All I can say is: lololol
That's significant.
Trump lost in 2020 by 11,780 votes.
That's what he needed to take Georgia and their EC votes.
Taylor just got 30x that number of people to register in a single day.
It seems like a bad idea to track where traffic is coming from when a person is signing up to vote. We know the sort of opponent in this endeavor, why give them the ability to start determining who might have papers or information get accidentally lost in the application process?
Vote.gov is aware of the traffic. It redirects you to your state website to actually register. Those websites would only see traffic from vote.gov, not anything from a tracking URL.
Vote.gov uses custom links to see what is effective in getting people to register to vote so they can continue doing that, as that's their mandate.
As a note, this is 10x as many people signing up same day then in 2022 when she directed people to vote.org
Yep, just now realizing my mistake. Thanks, I’ll edit!
The article itself says:
The same day Taylor Swift posted a message encouraging her followers to register to vote, over 35,000 people reportedly made a “Run (Taylor’s Version)” to do so on Vote.org
Edit: I had clicked the wrong link. OP’s headline is thankfully correct!
Think that's because this time it's a “vote to defend me” kind of situation?
If they wanted to accidently lose registration they could just do it by party affiliation in key states
No need to do it by referring url
They will learn no lessons from this because they're stuck in their weirdo right-wing media/online bubble. They'll keep saying weird and disgusting things like Musk when he threatened to impregnate Taylor Swift, and it will be devastating for them
"...but my lord, there is no such force!"
Now let’s recruit the K-Pop stans and only then will our victory be truly complete. We must unite these 2 forces for good.
I assume that's a gif because I remember that line and it's a perfectly hilarious response, but I just see a pic.
Gifs don't seem to work for me. Is that a problem with Jerboa?
It was only a matter of time until Donald incurred the wrath of TayTay