With Election Day only 8 days away, a lovely list of celebrities have joined a major nonpartisan education effort to protect citizens exercising their right to vote in this year’s election. Ashanti, Samuel L. Jackson, Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Williams, Tichina Arnold, Ana Ortiz, Blair Underwood, Vanessa L. Williams and Rex Lee recorded PSAs to remind voters of their rights as citizens and direct them to a hotline and website where they can turn for impartial advice and report problems: 866-OUR-VOTE (687-8683) and www.866ourvote.org. The PSAs are airing on TV, cable and radio stations nationwide and prominently on the E! Entertainment Television through Election Day.

Listen to some PSA:

Angela Bassett

Lawrence Fishburne

Samuel L Jackson

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Come November, these famous friends of TakePart and the I Am Voting For campaign will be all about what (not who) they’re voting for, and encourage you to vote the issues ” not the personalities ” this election season. Forget about race, gender, campaign contributions and ill-spoken statements by loose-lipped advisors. It’s time to distinguish the candidates by the issues we care about, and the platforms that they stand on.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus of Seinfeld fame is voting for “a greener world, less carbon emissions and more fuel efficiency” :

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