Poll Goals! See All the Celebrities Sharing Voting Selfies After Casting Their Ballots (2025)

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Just poll with it: Stars including Gwyneth Paltrow, James Taylor, Kevin Bacon and more have shared snapshots after casting their ballots, to encourage others to get out and vote

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Updated on October 25, 2024 05:45PM EDT

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Poll Goals! See All the Celebrities Sharing Voting Selfies After Casting Their Ballots (3)

Voting for the 2024 presidential election is officially underway.

And though Election Day is not until Nov. 5, as Kevin Bacon pointed out when he danced to cast his mail-in ballot, "the election doesn’t start on Nov 5th; that’s when it ends."

In 47 states plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, voters can cast their votes early and in person, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Though Alabama, Mississippi and New Hampshire do not offer early in-person voting, options to send in absentee ballots might still be available.

In addition to absentee voting, which is available in most states for those who won't be able to vote in-person on election day, some states also offer a vote-by-mail option for those who can't or do not want to vote in person. (Vote411 has a handy guide to all the options available to you.)

For those interested in casting votes before Nov. 5, it's important to look into specific state and county guidelines. Not sure where to vote in person? It's easy to locate using this tool.

Read on to see which celebrities are taking advantage of early voting — and sharing selfies with their "I Voted!" sticker to encourage others to do the same.

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Michelle Pfeiffer

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Michelle Pfeiffer donned a statement cap that read, "Please Vote." In the caption, she continued where she left off: "...and #vote early!"

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Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker

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Brooklyn Decker and her husband of 15 years, Andy Roddick, headed out to vote early in North Carolina. With "I Voted" stickers stuck to their cheeks, Decker rallied North Carolina voters to cast their ballots.

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Meghan Trainor, Daryl Sabara and Chris Olsen

Meghan Trainor collaborated with her husband Daryl Sabara and close friend Chris Olsen for a "cheeky" tune encouraging fans to vote.

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Gwyneth Paltrow

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As early voting kicked off around the country, the Goop founder showed off her "I Voted" sticker in a selfie shared to her Instagram Story.

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Lizzo

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Wearing a Harris-Walz cap and "It's About Madam Time" t-shirt — a nod to her similarly-titled song — Lizzo shared that she had cast her vote in a post to Instagram on Oct. 14.

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Yung Gravy

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Yung Gravy returned to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin, to lead students students in a march to cast their votes at the Memorial Union, Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Ben Wikler (pictured right) shared on X.

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Kevin Bacon

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In a video shared to X seemingly shot on the streets of New York City, Kevin Bacon is seen dancing to the mailbox to cast his vote.

"The election doesn’t start on Nov 5th; that’s when it ends. Vote early!," the Footloose actor noted.

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Ben Schwartz

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Ben Schwartz shared a photo of his voting sticker on his forehead along with the message, "This is an awfully important election. Try not to put off voting until the last minute. Get out there and vote. Your voice matters."

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James Taylor

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Along with a photo posing alongside his wife and one of his sons pointing to their stickers after voting early, Taylor wrote a message in five parts shared to X.

"This is a really important election - they all are, but this one especially so with so much at stake," he wrote in part. "Can you feel it, America? Can you feel what it is we need to do? How important it is right now? I sure do."

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Kat Dennings

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Kat Dennings kept it simple with her voting selfie, just sharing a close up image of the sticker.

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Pauline Chalamet

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While showing her love for poll workers with her choice of hat, Pauline Chalamet shared that she had made a trip to her local mailbox to cast her ballot from Europe.

"IT’S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN..! time to mail in our ballots!," the Sex Lives of College Girls actress wrote on Instagram. "and a MAAAAJOR shoutout and THANK YOU to all the POLL WORKERS across the USA who are making it possible for ALLLL US citizens to exercise their right to vote. let’s go."

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Danica Patrick

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Race car driver Danica Patrick revealed that she cast her first-ever vote in this election, for former President Donald Trump.

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Michelle Obama

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama showed off her vote-by-mail ballot and urged people to get out and vote, whether early or on Election Day.