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GSA says 337K Taylor Swift referrals have come to vote.gov (thehill.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/politics@lemmy.world
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This is just from taylor swift's specific link and does not include any other traffic to vote.gov

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[+] 199 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)
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    • [–] 129 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    But but JD Vance said no one would be influenced by her!

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Even more ironic, he said no one would be swayed by an out of touch billionaire that can't identify with them...

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Technically he said a “billionaire celebrity,” so he might have been referring to his boss.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Taylor Swift Net worth: 1.3 billion USD

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    And hers isn't made up based off of Russian money laundering.

    A reminder that all Trump businesses have failed and he's literally bankrupted a casino five separate times (and a hotel once). One of his spawn has also stated that the family has been "debanked" or fired as clients (due to financial, legal, regulatory, or reputational risk). Ironic that debanking usually comes under scrutiny for how it has disproportionately targeted Muslims and minorities.

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    • [–] 91 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone is going to get "Swift Voted"

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    • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How many are from the esteemed nation of PAWANEVMIAZGANC?

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    • [–] 32 points 2 years ago

    quite a swift response

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Different kind of swiftboat in play this election.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    [Promotes basic action of American democracy]

    "They are cheating!!! That's not fair!!!!"

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    "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.

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    • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I will at least point out, that unless it’s a safety or moving violation you can’t get something like a window tint ticket in Virginia if your car is registered in North Carolina because the window tint laws are different.

    Also, in rare cases, if the vehicle comes from the factory with super dark tint, you can’t get a ticket period because it is federally allowed. See the GM Pontiac fiero rear limo tint from the 80’s.

    And this is just one aspect of a vehicle across state lines. So yea, it’s chaos and the police will give you a ticket anyways, especially if you’re a visitor.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    All I can say is: lololol

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    That was 2022, when she used the vote.org link, which is a charity that registers people to vote. Yesterday, she used vote.gov, which is a government service that redirects people to their local state registration services.

    OPs headline is the same as the article from this year, and is accurate as it lists referrals, which is what vote.gov does.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    The ants enjoyed the barbecue more than the family.

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    [+] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
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