Why Isn’t Bernie Sanders on the D.C. Ballot?
So far, the 2016 election cycle has been awash with the type of drama more reminiscent of a middle school student government campaign than a national presidential election. Candidates have vacillated between name calling, accusations of corruption, and the silent treatment, all the while claiming that the other person started it. So, in the midst…
HeadCount and Ben & Jerry’s Team Up
We love Ben & Jerry’s. We love their ice cream, their music-themed flavors and their passion for voting. That’s why we’re so excited to set up at their shops and register voters April 12th on Free Cone Day! We’ll be at select stores in major markets across the country, helping people update their registrations and…
Are Candidate Spouses Off Limits?
In the last week we’ve seen Bernie Sanders win 5 of 6 states, Trump with his worst single state performance of the campaign, and some long lines to vote in Arizona. Those victories helped Sanders shave 38 delegates off of Hillary Clinton’s lead and the Vermont Senator currently trails Clinton by 268 pledged delegates. Trump…
An Interview With Dave Morgan, Founder of RecycleLife
In a year when all eyes are on the men and women running for president and the nation’s attention is fixed on topics such as building a wall and fighting terror, we tend to lose sight of topics that surpass political boundaries. Through our participation at festivals and coordinating various non-profit villages at events across…
Arizona’s Polling Places Could Use Spring Training
This Tuesday (technically Wednesday morning) in Arizona, Aracely Calderon did not get to cast her ballot until 12:12 am. At first that sounds cool, like the Grand Canyon state instituted a voting version of midnight disco bowling. But that wasn’t the case. Ms. Calderon got in line before the polls closed at 7pm and had…
Maybe it Takes Chaos for People to Care
This presidential election is crazy. American politics is supposed to be a civil and moderate affair. Name calling, socialists, nationalists, street fights and silencing of opponents was stuff that happened in Europe, but not on this side of the Atlantic. I don’t know if we are ever going to get our old system back. Yes,…
Marc Brownstein’s First Time
Are you ready to laugh? Watch this video featuring Marc Brownstein (Disco Biscuits, Electron, Conspirator) and Jeremy Salken (Big Gigantic) offering a tongue-in-cheek description of their first time voting that kind of sounds like their first time partaking in another activity… The video is a piece we helped produce with our friends at Mashable to…
Presidential Candidate & Marijuana
Super Tuesday and Super Saturday have come to pass, Michigan has cast their ballots, even the Democrats Abroad have made their voices heard; but neither party has settled on a candidate. Donald Trump currently has a 90 delegate lead over his closest competitor Ted Cruz, while Hillary Clinton holds a 205 pledged delegate lead over…
The FIGHT To Vote
Last week I realized just how much I take the right to vote for granted. Not just that I’ve missed an election or two, but I always assumed that as a white man I could take a time machine to any November in American history and vote. Of course that is assuming I brought the…
February Team Leader of the Month
HeadCount has the best volunteers in music and we want the whole world to know. We tried shouting it from various rooftops but after a few rooftops our voices got a little hoarse and we realized no one was listening to us. So instead we decided to highlight a different volunteer Team Leader every month….