Role model Taylor Swift prompts spike in voter registration by posting pro-Democrat Instagram post

The US voter registration service experienced a spike in numbers after Taylor Swift – long silent on partisan issues – expressed her support for two Democratic candidates and encouraged her 112 million Instagram followers to register to vote in time for next month’s US midterm elections.

Kamari Guthrie, the director of communications for vote.org, told Buzzfeed News there were 65,000 registrations in the 24-hour period after the singer posted her statement to Instagram on Sunday.

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In her post, Swift said that though she prefers to support women candidates, she could not bring herself to vote for Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee’s US Senate race because “her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me.”

“She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values.”

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