Verizon Wireless is encouraging its customers to exercise their right to vote in this year’s historic election. The company announced that its customers how have exclusive access to The Creative Coalition’s engaging YouVote video.

Conceived and directed by filmmaker Sue Kramer, YouVote leverages the spotlight of the entertainment industry to inspire and encourage Americans to vote in the upcoming presidential election and is now available to millions of Verizon Wireless customers with V CAST-enabled phones.

YouVote marks the first time that actors, filmmakers, producers and directors are joining together in a fully non-partisan and inter-generational effort to encourage voter participation. The three-minute video includes more than 40 celebrities, including Blake Lively, Anne Hathaway, Tim Daly, Samuel L. Jackson, Susan Sarandon, Marcia Cross, Jane Krakowski and The Muppets.

Verizon Wireless customers can watch YouVote by visiting the Election ’08 category on V CAST and then selecting YouVote and selecting either the one or three-minute YouVote video.

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