Talk Elections

Public Service Announcement: There are only two ways you can vote in the presidential election. One: You can go to your local polling place and vote IRL. Or two: You can vote by mail, with an absentee ballot. You cannot vote via text message, despite what a new wave of Twitter memes might lead you to believe.

Aside from the fact that you can’t cast a vote via text, there are a few other things about the memes that should tip you off. (Despite the fact that they look very similar to legitimate promos from the Clinton campaign.) The small white text at the bottom of the ad reads “Paid for by Hillary for President 2016,” when a real Clinton ad would read “Paid for by Hillary for America.” And if you follow the instructions and text the number, you get a response informing you “the ad you saw was not approved by iVisionMobile OR Hillary for America in any way” and offers the real number for text updates from the Clinton campaign. (Heaven only knows what random list I put my phone number on testing this out.) When I replied “STOP,” I received a notification that I had been “opted out of False HFA Ad on Twitter.” (iVision Mobile did not immediately respond to Select All’s request for comment.)