NYC Election Board, Tim Robbins continue disputeOkay, couple of things: One can register to vote in New York at an office? WTF? Every other place I've ever heard of, one is required to register at a permanent residence address.
NEW YORK – Tim Robbins' difficulty in voting on Election Day was his own fault, New York City's Board of Elections maintains.
Board representative Gregory C. Soumas wrote a letter to Robbins, telling him that he was not on the rolls at the poll site he visited last week "because you simply went to the wrong poll site."
Soumas said Robbins filed a new voter registration form in February 2004, changing his voting address — which meant he had to vote elsewhere, about six blocks away.
The letter said Robbins should have gone to the new site and that this problem would have arisen earlier had Robbins voted in either the presidential primary in February or a second primary in September.
The confusion appears to stem from the double registration of Robbins — one his home address, the other his nearby office address — and the board eliminated one.
Also, does New York not send out election materials that tell a voter where to vote? Shouldn't Robbins have noted that he was receiving two copies of voter pamphlets? With different voting addresses? Or does he just not read the voting material? Didn't it occur to him that he probably shouldn't have been double registered? Oy, what a dolt.
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"The system is in need of repair," said Robbins. "And the people that run it are pretty petty and vindictive when they would release to all the major newspapers in the New York area private information like your home address and your driver's license number."Yeah, the system is in need of repair. And you can talk to Joe the Plumber on that "private information" part.
Robbins thinks the board's actions were meant "to save face," and reiterated that he hoped his case brought attention to broader voter troubles.Uh huh. And if it hadn't been for the shenanigans pulled by ACORN and Friends, he might even have lost.
"If it hadn't been for shenanigans like this, Obama's margin would have been much, much higher," he said.
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I've always wondered if the brainless guy he played in "Bull Durham" was, er, not much of a strech for him.
Now I know.
How much you wanna bet that the phrase "Do you know who I am?" was used somewhere in his interaction with the folks at the polling place?
Seriously, if I were the judge involved in this, I'd reach across my desk and dope-slap him. The assault charge would be totally worth it.
In his autobiography, Barry Manilow tells about the time he asked his chauffeur to get him a table in a fancy restaurant. The chauffeur came back and told him there were no tables. Barry said, "Did you tell them who I am?" The chauffeur replied, "If you have to tell them who you are, you ain't nobody."
True enough.
I told them who I are and I STILL didn't get a table.
I am less than nobody...
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