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"Tom Hanks has joked that he will spank any American who does not vote in the presidential election. The Oscar winner stressed to MTV News that US citizens have a responsibility to make their voices heard in the election showdown between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.  &amp;quot;If you don&amp;#039;t vote this year, I am going to come to your house and I&amp;#039;m gonna spank you right on the butt,&amp;quot; Hanks quipped. He added humorously: &amp;quot;Nothing is more important. If you don&amp;#039;t vote - that&amp;#039;s right, if you don&amp;#039;t vote - Hanks is coming to your house to spank you on the butt!&amp;quot; Hanks was speaking in support of MTV&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Power of &amp;#039;12&amp;#039; campaign, which urges young people to take part in the November 6 election. The actor endorsed Obama earlier this year by narrating the short film The Road We&amp;#039;ve Traveled, which highlighted the president&amp;#039;s accomplishments in his first term. He has also donated to many Democratic candidates over the course of his Hollywood career. Hanks next appears on the big screen in sci-fi epic Cloud Atlas, which opens on October 26, 2012 in the US and on February 22, 2013 in the UK. Watch a trailer for Cloud Atlas below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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