Voter Registration Meets Major Concerts For HeadCount…Plus!

At Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Linkin Park, Jason Mraz and 600+ Other Concerts and Events Nationwide, Musicians Partner with HeadCount in Effort to Register Voters

Online and On-the-Ground Effort Aims to Register More than 25,000 Voters And Drive Millions to the Polls

Ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, hundreds of musicians and entertainers are teaming up with HeadCount, a non-partisan civic engagement organization that targets young voters, to stage a massive effort to register and turn out voters. Their message – delivered via concerts and a barrage of photos posted on social media – is that you have to vote more than once every four years to have a thriving democracy.

As part of the effort, HeadCount holding voter registration and turnout drives at more than 600 concerts this year, currently touring with The Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Linkin Park, Jason Mraz, Tom Petty and Rise Against, following a stint on summer tours by JAY Z and Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails, and Phish. In all, HeadCount has set up voter registration and turnout drives with 51 different touring artists this year, an effort that involves more than 1,500 volunteers all across the country.

On Tuesday, September 23rd, National Voter Registration Day, musicians and entertainers — including Linkin Park, Dave Matthews, Sarah Silverman, Weird Al, Ed Norton, Jason Mraz, Russell Simmons, T.I.. Pearl Jam, George Lopez and many many more — will use their social media platforms to post photos of themselves holding HeadCount’s “Register to Vote” clipboards, with links to an online voter registration form. The participants have a collective reach of more than 500 million Facebook fans and Twitter followers.

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Online and On-the-Ground Effort Aims to Register More than 25,000 Millennial Voters And Drive Millions to the Polls

Ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, hundreds of musicians and entertainers are teaming up with HeadCount, a non-partisan civic engagement organization that targets young voters, to stage a massive effort to register and turn out voters. Their message – delivered via concerts and a barrage of photos posted on social media – is that you have to vote more than once every four years to have a thriving democracy.