Ms. Swift’s endorsement of Ms. Harris in an Instagram post after the debate accounted for more than half of the roughly 727,000 visitors to Vote.gov from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to a government spokeswoman. The debate itself also is likely to have driven interest; the site averaged only about 30,000 visitors a day for the prior week. The League of Women Voters said the number of people using its Vote411.org site had more than doubled since Tuesday, and Vote.org, another resource, said the number of people it helped register more than doubled Wednesday compared with preceding days.
- New York Times
- New York Times