Nashville-based Swifties, Taylor Swift needs you to move to the polls. In an Instagram Story shared Friday (July 14), the pop famous person reminds followers that it’s time to pick some new native leaders.
“Hello Nashville! Early voting for our metropolis officers and a few statewide seats begins in the present day,” she captioned a photograph of herself holding an “I Voted Right now” sticker in entrance of her proper eye. “We have now the chance to decide on those that will characterize us for the following 4 years.”
“I voted in the present day and I urge every and everybody of you to do the identical and make your voice heard,” she continued earlier than ending her message with a hyperlink to non-profit group Vote.org.
Nashville will likely be deciding on a brand new mayor in addition to filling 40 council seats. Early voting ends on July 29, with Election Day on Aug. 3.
The 12-time Grammy winner — who’s presently on her worldwide The Eras Tour — has impressed upon her followers the significance of voting prior to now, and inspired them to carry out their civic responsibility. In October, simply forward of the arrival of her album Midnights, she reminded followers to vote early. “There are solely 20 midnights till the 2022 United States Midterm Elections on November 8,” she identified on Instagram Tales on the time. “Most states supply some kind of early voting. Register to vote and discover Early Voting areas in your state at Vote.org.”
She’s additionally beforehand endorsed Tennessee Democrat Phil Bredesen for Senate in 2018; he finally misplaced to Republican Marsha Blackburn.
The star wasn’t all the time so open about politics, some extent she addressed in 2018. “Previously I’ve been reluctant to publicly voice my political views, however attributable to a number of occasions in my life and on this planet prior to now two years, I really feel very in another way about that now,” the star stated on social media on the time. “I all the time have and all the time will forged my vote primarily based on which candidate will defend and battle for the human rights I consider all of us deserve on this nation.”
For info on the way to verify your registration standing, discover early voting areas, and/or register vote, go to Vote.org.
