Young voters, you have more power than you realize. Use it.
For years, young voters have been shamed because, historically, fewer than half of them who are eligible to vote show up at the polls on Election Day. The stereotypes write…
Instagram election: Celebs post selfies with instructions to VOTE
Every Tuesday in the run up to the Nov. 3, 2020 election, Mashable will break down the most viral posts about politics on Instagram. Using data from the Facebook-owned analytics…
Trump’s Twitter account went on an all-caps rant this morning while he remains in the hospital
President Donald Trump — or someone with access to his Twitter account — was absolutely going off on Monday morning. The president sent a barrage of all-caps tweets urging people…
Since astronauts vote from space, you can definitely vote on Earth
In the early days of space travel, astronauts only stayed in orbit for a few weeks at most. But now that NASA and other space agencies launch missions that can…
Stephen Colbert’s election website shows you how to vote state-by-state
This year’s U.S. presidential election in November is going to be a colossal one, and more than anything, Stephen Colbert just really wants you to vote. But with the rules…
Worried about voting during the pandemic? The NBA wants to help.
First, NBA players walked off the courts in solidarity with Jacob Blake and racial justice. WNBA players did too, and a ripple effect reverberated across the sports world with baseball,…
How to protect your mail-in vote as Trump attacks USPS
This is an election year unlike any other, to put it mildly. With the pandemic raging on, many voters will turn to mail-in voting to avoid potentially crowded polling places.…
The last-minute Facebook political ad ban could end up suppressing votes
Facebook’s latest test balloon has popped. On Friday, Bloomberg reported that Facebook is considering a blackout of political ads in the “days” before the November 2020 election. That alarmed democratic…
Facebook to add link to ‘authoritative’ info on posts about voting—even Trump’s
Facebook took a teeny step forward on its tightrope walk between helping people vote in 2020 and not pissing off President Donald Trump. In a livestreamed video Friday, Facebook CEO…
Watch this one video to see just how broken voting in America has become
Voting rights activists worried this would happen. They feared that people would be blocked from voting in Kentucky as the state reduced polling locations due to the coronavirus. Its largest…