The New York Post reports that Eliot Spitzer never made it to the polls last November, despite writing a Slate column a few days before the election entitled: “Why I Am Voting for Barack Obama”:
Records filed with the city Board of Elections show that while some voters waited hours to cast their ballots, Spitzer was a no-show at his Upper East Side poll site on Nov. 6, 2012.
Nor did he submit an absentee ballot available to those who can’t vote in person. A spokeswoman said Spitzer couldn’t make it to the polls because he had to high-tail it to San Francisco to serve as a paid co-anchor of Current TV’s round-table election coverage.
But election officials say he still would have had an opportunity to cast a ballot:
Any voter can show up in person at the local board office to fill out an absentee ballot up to a day before the election, according to a Board of Elections spokeswoman.
An absentee ballot sent by mail would have to be postmarked a week before Election Day.
If he had moved quickly, Spitzer could have gotten in just under the wire. Current TV issued a press release on Oct. 31 announcing its planned Nov. 6 election-night coverage, a full week in advance.
“The choice is easy,” declared Spitzer in the column. Making the effort to vote, less so.