--- title: New Google Doodle Reminds You To Cast Your Vote In Election description: Google has created a Doodle to commemorate Election Day, reminding people to vote and providing practical information for casting ballots. canonical: https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/ author: Suyin Haynes article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-08T15:33:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:30.086Z og:title: New Google Doodle Reminds Everyone To Get Out and Vote og:description: The animation encourages Americans to vote og:url: https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc779b665748bfe65/6988ad75bc6cfc8bac3df3c6/google-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=560&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 560 og:image:height: 315 og:image:alt: google-logo og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Reminds Everyone To Get Out and Vote twitter:description: The animation encourages Americans to vote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc779b665748bfe65/6988ad75bc6cfc8bac3df3c6/google-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=560&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Reminds Everyone To Get Out and Vote > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Nov 8, 2016 3:33 PM UTC  Google by [Suyin Haynes](https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/) ## Suyin Haynes Nov 8, 2016 3:33 PM UTC On Election Day as millions of Americans decide on their [future president](http://time.com/4562091/election-results-2016-trump-clinton-final-hours/?xid=homepage), Google has created a fun new Doodle reminding people to vote and providing practical information needed to cast those all important ballots. Available across the U.S., the animated Doodle shows the letters that spell out ‘Google’ going about their day before remembering to head to their polling station. As Google [explained](http://www.google.com/doodles/united-states-elections-2016), the Doodle features links that help people find out where to vote, how to vote, and who is on the ballot in both English and Spanish. As the final hours of the [2016 election draw to a finish](http://time.com/4558857/election-2016-vote-polls/?iid=election) and polling closes around the country on Tuesday evening, [Google](http://time.com/4561162/android-auto-google-download/) will also provide real-time election results as they happen in the U.S., which will be available to users of the search engine around the world. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Reminds Everyone To Get Out and Vote","datePublished":"2016-11-08T15:33:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:38:30.086Z","description":"The animation encourages Americans to vote","url":"https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google","U.S.","Google Doodle","2016 presidential election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc779b665748bfe65/6988ad75bc6cfc8bac3df3c6/google-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Suyin Haynes","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/suyin-haynes/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc779b665748bfe65/6988ad75bc6cfc8bac3df3c6/google-logo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"google-logo","caption":"Google","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4562413/google-doodle-us-election/","name":"New Google Doodle Reminds Everyone To Get Out and Vote"}}]}] ```