SAN FRANCISCO - Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman was registered as a Republican voter in San Francisco from 1982 to 1985, city records show, contrary to a report last month that there was no evidence of her registration when she lived in the city in the 1980s.
Whitman, a Republican candidate for governor, admits her voting record over the past three decades has been "atrocious." It has become an issue in the statewide race.
Margaret Cushing Whitman registered to vote in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1982, and was on the city voter rolls as of 1985, the date of the elections roll microfiche stored in the San Francisco Public Library.
The records from the city's Department of Elections, obtained this week by The San Francisco Chronicle through the city's sunshine law, do not indicate whether Whitman voted when she lived in San Francisco.
Last year, The Chronicle reported that Whitman, as a resident of San Mateo County, did not vote in more than half the elections after registering there in 2002.
Records in that county also showed that she did not state a party affiliation until 2007, when she became a Republican.
The Sacramento Bee reported last month that there was no record of Whitman registering to vote in San Francisco or, later, in Santa Clara County. Whitman disputed those reports.
In an Oct. 8 report, the Bee said records obtained from San Francisco elections officials show Whitman registered there in 1982. In the same report, Santa Clara County officials, who had said they had no record of Whitman registering to vote, found a record of her registering there in 1999.
E-mail Carla Marinucci at cmarinucci(at)sfchronicle.com.
(Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service, www.scrippsnews.com.)
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