Taylor Swift Urges Fans To Vote In Instagram Video

Taylor Swift continues to use her social media status to encourage fans to vote in today’s midterm elections.

The 28-year-old pop star took to her Instagram Stories on Tuesday to plea for people to vote on Election Day, as posted in a story published by Entertainment Tonight.

“What is today? Tuesday. What was it that everyone is supposed to do today?” she jokingly questions at the start of the clip. “What was it? Oh yeah, you gotta go vote today.”

She continued by reminding her fans, mostly young voters, to exercise their right to speak their minds by getting out to the polls to vote their conscience.

“I’m seeing a lot of underestimation of young voters and this new generation who now have the right to vote just in the last couple of years, but these are people who grew up post 9/11, they grew up with school shooting drills at their schools,” she said. “These are people who want to vote.”

“It’s not enough to just want change. It’s not enough to just want to vote,” she said. “You have to go and make change by voting and today is your opportunity to do that. I promise you it feels so wonderful to exercise that right that you have.”

“Happy voting, you guys,” she finished after encouraging her fans to tag her in their #justvoted selfies.

The singer also shared some voting information on her Instagram Story on both Monday and Tuesday, per Entertainment Tonight.

The singer let Tennessee residents know that they are entitled to three hours off of work to vote, shared Jimmy Kimmel’s list of candidates “who voted to gut protections for people with pre-existing conditions,” and provided a list of states with same-day voter registration, per ET.

The singer has been silent on her political leanings for years prior to this particular election but posted on October 7 her feelings about the election which at that point, was to come.

She has also shared many pics on her Instagram story from her fans who were able to vote early in this election.

CNN reported that the singer has basically turned her social media page into a “get out the vote” page.

She’s among one of the most followed people on Instagram, with more 112 million followers, and she’s had her comments disabled for months, keeping any criticism of her politics off her page, per CNN. Swift also asked fans to tag her after they voted with the hashtag #justvoted and has since reposted images of more than 100 fans.