The 14 best celebrity pictures from HeadCount’s “Register to Vote” campaign
By John Hendrickson | September 25th, 2012 | No Comments »It’s been clogging your newsfeed all day: Celebrities — some relevant, some not — awkwardly holding a large clipboard that resembles a bootleg iPad and imploring you to register to vote. Why? Well, think of this as a slight improvement from Diddy’s “Vote Or Die” campaign, but nowhere near as succinct as the time-tested “Rock The Vote” initiative. It’s an effort by HeadCount, a well-meaning non-profit collective of musicians led by Disco Biscuits bassist Marc Brownstein that’s dedicated to getting young people to vote. Some of the photos circulating social networks this Tuesday are fine (Black Keys, Santigold, David Cross). Most are bad. Here’s 13 of our favorites (with a bonus Photoshop job thrown in for good measure).
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1 of 1450 Cent wants you to get out of his kitchen, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
2 of 14Dave Matthews thinks covering one eye automatically makes you a pirate, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
3 of 14Trey Anastasio thinks he is showing you his high score on Angry Birds, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
4 of 14Mike Gordon is on the phone telling Trey how to beat Level 5 in Angry Birds, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
5 of 14Death Cab For Cutie believes they are posing for their latest promo photo, and they want you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
6 of 14Snoop Dogg doesn't give a f*ck who this is/what this clipboard is/where his scarf came from/what's going on, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
7 of 14Susan Sarandon wants you to keep your eyes up here, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
8 of 14The girl on the left wants to elect an abstract concept for president, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
9 of 14Warren Haynes is trying to sell you this Playboy from 1977, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
10 of 14Blind Pilot is hoping representative democracy will free them from this third world prison, and they want you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
11 of 14John Legend is wondering why the Grammys look different this year, and why he's alone in this hotel room, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
12 of 14Chad and Brad from Dispatch look really really really cool, and want you to vote after they give you some spiel about ZImbabwe for the next 30 minutes. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
13 of 14Jeff Tweedy is in Central Park today, like every other day, to feed the pigeons, and wants you to vote. Photo courtesy of HeadCount's Facebook page. -
14 of 14Jeff Tweedy also wants to remind you to eat heart-healthy Quaker Oats. Photo illustration by Lucas Ross.
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