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‘Mastermind’ Taylor Swift drives hoards of fans to voter registration site
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Tldr; yeah they're not going to be voting Republican.
Unless she follows it up with a message about "remember to schedule some time on election day to vote" a few days before election day and another message on actual election day to remind people to go out and vote that day, all she has done is increased the available voters not the successful 2024 voters.
It's rarely that the job won't let you vote, it's that people can't afford to take the time off needed to vote.
Remember, the GOP has spent decades working to disenfranchise voters, and one of the many tactics they use is closing polling stations in areas likely to vote against them, making in-person voting an ardious, hours-long process.
Who do you sue when the lines at the polling stations are 8 hours long?
Which is all why early voting is so important.
We have an election coming up here in Canada, in Manitoba specifically.
The early vote window opens Saturday for a week, followed by the voting day. You get 3 hours off to vote, I've instructed everyone working on my projects to coordinate so we're not all gone at once. Polls open 8-8.
Even our piece of shit conservatives push for early voting. It's just a better way.
Where I am in the US we have about three solid weeks of in person early voting, and anyone can request a mail-in ballot, which they can either send through the mail, or deliver in person, or discard and vote in person (in case your abusive spouse tries to vote for you by mail). We've made quite a lot of progress in the past decade