Leo, Ellen, Halle And More Celebs' New Message: Don't Vote (VIDEO)

NEW YORK - How do you get kids to vote? Just say no.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Tobey Maguire, Eva Longoria Parker and other stars are using reverse psychology to get young people into voting booths on election day.

In a new public service announcement that hit YouTube and other online outlets Wednesday, DiCaprio says: "Please -- just don't vote." Others echo his plea: "Don't vote."

But the stars soon twist the message: Voting is a civic duty and the only way to effect change.

"I mean, seriously, ... after this whole video -- if you're not gonna vote, I don't even know what to say. ... You know you have to vote," says DiCaprio, who produced the PSA.

Also appearing: Ellen DeGeneres, Forest Whitaker, Dustin Hoffman, Demi Moore, Sarah Silverman, Jonah Hill, Ashton Kutcher, Courteney Cox, Laura Linney, Natalie Portman, Jamie Foxx, Usher, Kyra Sedgwick and will.i.am.

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Comments

[Agentlady007]

Now if we all put those five friends on a list including their address and send them each five dollars and then tell all of the people on the list to send five dollars to each of their friends putting the person who sent the first five to you on the top of their new list, and so and so on, we could all gain from this voting idea and get richer at the same time affording our own health insurance, because I don't believe politicians anyway.

[loax]

Great ad. Show it on TV to reach all the people!

[gabbinjane]

They won't HAVE to vote - someone from ACORN will be happy to do it for them!!

[xrepublican]

Well, if you're old, black or a native American, odds are your registration got voided in an organized voter suppression effort sponsored by your local Republican Party. I fyou can't FIND your voting station in a poor neighborhood, or have to wait 8 hours to vote in a Democratic majority precinct, thank the Republicans.

Still wondering how NO votes were cast - for ANYONE AT ALL - in most Native American precincts in New Mexico in 2004 - and how ALL electronic voting machine tallies showed Bush pluralities......

When you keep people from voting and manage to control the voting results.... you've lost your Democracy. Only a HANDFUL of 'duplicate' or illegal votes have EVER been prosecuted - he REAL problem is voter SUPPRESSION, outright fraud in vote tallying and worse....... he last two Presidential elections were FRAUDS - STOLEN. Even 2006 had massive manipulation - Rove just underestimated the level of voter outrage and didn't steal ENOUGH...... any more and it would have been beyond credibility.

Even now the polls had been manipulated like mad to show that McCain was close - to make any theft plausible - but the overwhelming voter outrage is making it impossible to fake polls now.... it's blatantly obvious that McCain is losing and losing big.... though he SHOULD be losing at Goldwater levels......

[JerseyGirl4Obama]

THAT'S WHY WE NEED A LANDSLIDE ON NOVEMBER 4TH.

You're registered right? You know you need to vote right?

Obama-Biden2008

[pbley68]

Vote, you mother f**kers.

[fictioneer]

Haha. Weird but might actually reach the disaffected.

[rksu747]

Courtney Cox saying that she did have five friends was hilarious and Sarah Silverman is always a riot! It's a nice vid but I hope it translates to the disaffected!

[abigail1]

that was great! I've harassed all my friends for months, but there's no reason to stop now!

[peachfuzz]

LOVE IT!

[CeciliaBertrand]

me too - thanks everyone

[Kremfresch]

great spot

[deeppeace]

Brilliant. Get it to the right people.

[powertothepeople]

Right..the homeless, the drug addicts, the felons, the illegal immigrants...and so on and so on....

[scrzbill]

More neocon christofascistd hate fresh from, let me guess, Fresno.

[ferdosork]

Hilarious how the right wing says it's aligned with Jesus, and yet don't believe in redemption by the Lord for anyone else but themselves. Drug addicts, felons, illegal immigrants...all minions of Satan, after all, and not worthy of Jesus' admonishment, "As you do to the least of my brothers, you do unto me."