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Twitter, Facebook used to push Americans to the polls

Nani Teruya does not vote because she believes the United States is illegally occupying her home state of Hawaii, but people are trying to convince her to go to the polls next week via Google+ and Twitter. She is one of six non-voters taking part in a CNN project that uses social networks to try.