{"id":89518,"date":"2016-09-23T10:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=89518"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:30:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T17:30:34","slug":"hellovote-reigstration-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/hellovote-reigstration-app\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Register to Vote Via Text Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hellovote\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">HelloVote<\/a> is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/09\/124024\/hello-vote-text-voting-registration-phone-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">first text-message based voter registration tool<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; and\u00a0it&#8217;s going to make your life that much easier.<\/p>\n<p>You can register to vote by simply texting HelloVote or messaging\u00a0via Facebook Messenger to start the registration process. From there, voters will be taken through a basic form which requires name, mailing address, state-based questions about eligibility&#8230;and that&#8217;s about it!<\/p>\n<p>Dependent on if your state accepts instant registration, HelloVote will either send your forms automatically or mail you the completed form to sign along with a pre-addressed envelope to send to your local Board of Elections.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/topics\/public-sector\/voting.html\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>\u00a0found that over 33 million people were not registered to vote in the last presidential election and one-fifth of those that didn&#8217;t register said it was because they didn&#8217;t have time.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Tiffiniy Cheng is hoping to change this as over 92% of Americans owned a cellphone in 2015.\u00a0&#8220;People are texting all day, every day. Now, they can use what they do every day to register to vote,&#8221; Cheng told\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2016\/09\/124024\/hello-vote-text-voting-registration-phone-facebook\" target=\"_blank\">Refinery29<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can register to vote starting today by texting 384-387 or go to\u00a0<em>m.me\/hellovote<\/em> in Facebook Messenger.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"HelloVote is the first text-message based voter registration tool\u00a0-- and\u00a0it's going to make your life ...","author":422344,"featured_media":89541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[269,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/23103022\/hellovote-660x340.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/23103022\/hellovote.jpg","formated_date":"September 23, 2016","category_name":"Tech","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113850\/technology-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#8fdd5a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}