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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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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think website traffic reports always show the Top X referral links and I'd be shocked if hers wasn't #1.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 198 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They have woken the Swifties.

May god have mercy apon their ragged souls.

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.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

It was only a matter of time until Donald incurred the wrath of TayTay

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

May god have mercy on their souls

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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?

[–] don@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (3 children)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

"Nah, fuck all that..."

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 128 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Someonelemmy@lemmynsfw.com 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] comador@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Taylor Swift Net worth: 1.3 billion USD

Don't forget that they have Elon "pledging" something like $40M per month to the canpaign.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days 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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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone is going to get "Swift Voted"

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago

That's excellent. Thank you.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

How many are from the esteemed nation of PAWANEVMIAZGANC?

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (2 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.

[–] elliot_crane@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days 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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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

I'm sure their "concepts of a plan" had it really all thought out

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

quite a swift response

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 days ago

That's very wise; I'm proud of you for recognising this

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Different kind of swiftboat in play this election.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

[Promotes basic action of American democracy]

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

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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (16 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

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days 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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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

All I can say is: lololol

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days 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.

[–] BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org 16 points 1 week ago (3 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?

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 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

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

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

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

The election is being run by non-fascists. If we want to keep it that way, we need to vote.

[–] moon@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

"...but my lord, there is no such force!"

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