This article is from NYS Music by Tamara Starr:

It is hard to believe that Election Day is just over six weeks away and there have been many efforts to get people out to the polls.  However, even with the pandemic that hasn’t stopped organizations like HeadCount from getting people registered to vote.

Andy Bernstein, Executive Director of HeadCount, says that despite barriers, the organization’s efforts are going really well.

“We moved all our activities online and we’re registering more voters than ever,” Bernstein said.

HeadCount is a non-partisan organization that uses concerts-and now adds online events- to reach out to music fans to register to vote. However, now that concerts are at a standstill, there have been more musicians trying to reach out to fans via social media and even Zoom. Bernstein says that fortunately the organization was already aware of this early on during the pandemic.

Read the full article here.