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Shit, they know. I told you doing electoralism was a bad idea. Get agent Swift out of Earth.
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As far as I know - she's not doing that in any way. She's just giving them the info that's on the net anyway about registering to vote. The GOP doesn't want young people especially young women voting.
"Telling people to vote" means essentially the same thing as "saying to people that they should vote", as opposed to "Telling people how to vote", which is informing them on the method without necessarily saying they should (though of course, why bother unless you think they should?)
It's the difference between telling people they should kill the president which is
and informing people of where a good location to set up a mortar near the white house might be
Off the top of my head - I can be pretty good at explaining the finer points of English. But in this case my English-fu fails. Without googling - I can't figure out how to explain the nuance of telling meaning "informing" vs "instructing". You know the euphemisms which are far better than than the bookish "informing". "Say" is the closest but it's annoying here because it often uses a modal verb (etc) which isn't what we want because it's not neutral... "She said people [should / could / need to] register to vote."
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I googled but - as usual - google was shitty. I didn't find anything you don't already know. Rant - I also got served up with copypasta and spammy results plus I got a pop-in.