The tech titans of Silicon Valley have banded together to urge all their employees to make the time to vote tomorrow by giving their workers an additional 'Vote Hour' making it easier for the iPod toting crowd to make a trip to the polling booths on Election day.

The move was apparently initiated by a Google employee who read that the number one reason, according to a US Census Bureau report, given by people for not voting in 2004 was due to their busy work schedule. The employee sent the e-mail onto CEO and founder Eric Schmidt who volunteered to record his support for the Vote Hour concept to his fellow Silicon Valley CEO's. So far joining Google are the CEOs of Intel, eBay, Symantec, Sprint and Cisco all can be seen recording their own partisan-free YouTube videos in support of the VoteHour.org website.

Schmidt recently came out and endorsed the Obama for President campaign with liberal talk show host Rachel Maddow during the Democratic Convention. Some of the other tech CEOs have not been as public with their support for either Presidential candidate.

There is one prominent VC in the Valley that has gone public about jumping across the aisle. Long-time Republican voter and DFJ Partner and PR machine, Tim Draper, once dubbed as "George W.'s point man in the Valley," by Salon, indicated in a conversation with our Editor, Joel Dreyfuss, at the swanky Red Herring event ETRE 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, that he will break with his tradition and vote for 'change' with Obama.

Senator McCain maybe promising the Valley more in the way of R&D dollars in the way of tax relief and credits for technology companies, but in terms of Broadband development and maintaining Net Neutrality Obama might just tip the balance in the Valley. Obama has also promised to appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer. No indication as yet as to who that might be, but Eric must have won some additional brownie points.

If McCain is elected, and based on the polls, it is closer than we might think, he has support from former eBay CEO Meg Whitman and former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. Both have both been active on the campaign trail for McCain and both have been mentioned as a potential candidates in his administration. McCain has also received financial support from Intel's Paul Otellini and Sun Microsystem's Scott McNeally though the support is less vocal.

Obama can rely on a far longer list of Silicon Valley endorsements. In Addition to Google's Eric Scmidt he can add Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, eBay's  founder Pierre Omidyar, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Facebook's co-founder Chris Hughes.

According to a CNN report the Obama campaign has raised more than $1.4 million from contributions from Valley while McCain has gathered a measly $267,000.

Whichever way you decide to vote, and whomever you feel will do the most for keeping the Valley at the forefront of technology and innovation just be sure and make the effort and vote. No excuses this year please, we don't want a repeat of the nightmare of 2000.