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Robbins, Officials Still Sparring Over Voting Snafu

Actor may have been in the wrong location

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 11, 2008 1:50 PM CST

(Newser) – Actor and political activist Tim Robbins, who filed a court order to vote after his name wasn’t in the poll books on Election Day, may simply have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. The election commissioner now claims Robbins filed a change-of-address form when he moved in 2004, reports the New York Daily News—and might have known about his new polling place had he bothered to vote since.

"That's a lie," Robbins says. "Voting records should show I voted at the same polling place in 2004 and 2006."

Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Los Angeles.
Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, in Los Angeles.   (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Actor Tim Robbins speaks at a labor rally supporting the Writers Guild strike in New York's Washington Square Park, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.
Actor Tim Robbins speaks at a labor rally supporting the Writers Guild strike in New York's Washington Square Park, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2007.   (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)
Actor Tim Robbins boards the campaign bus of Democratic Presidential hopeful, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards outside the Iowa City Public Library in Iowa City, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007.
Actor Tim Robbins boards the campaign bus of Democratic Presidential hopeful, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards outside the Iowa City Public Library in Iowa City, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007.   (AP Photo/David Lienemann)
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I've seen him vote at that polling place since 1998. His name has always been in the book until this month. - Betty Williamson, Board of Elections inspector

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