Curtains Drawn, It Was Love At First Ballot

The following is a public service announcement.

"I did a lot of research on positions that I liked," says "Law & Order" alumna Angie Harmon in her close-up.

Tyne Daly from "Judging Amy" says, "The first man I had a crush on who wasn't my dad was John F. Kennedy. I really wanted to do it for him."

Regina King, lover to Ray Charles in the movie "Ray," can't shut up about it. "I was the last one of all my friends to do it," she confesses in a voice so deep and silky that you just want to hear every little detail. "After I did it, I told everybody ."

By now her arms and hands are in constant motion.

"You've got all that energy flowing inside and you go and commit, it's a beautiful thing. I would do it again and again and again and again." With that she throws back her head and laughs, fanning herself.

Their first time . . .

Voting. That's what the PSA, a double-entendred riff by well-known Hollywood actresses, is about. And it's what 20 million unmarried women didn't do in 2004, according to Page Gardner, president of the group that produced the ad, Women's Voices. Women Vote.

"They're a powerful force but their power is unrealized," says Gardner.

Maybe sex will do what a million other announcements, ads and speeches about civic duty have failed to do: lure them to the polls.

"I like to do it in the morning, when my synapses are clicking," says Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives."

Who would have thought that casting a ballot could be "sexy"?