Senate bid dogged by Carly Fiorina's failure to vote

Critics suggest maybe not, considering that Fiorina, 54, who has a spotty voting California voting record, never cast a ballot in two other states where she lived previously, according to public records.

Officials in Morris County, N.J., said records show she registered to vote there in 1997 but did not vote in a single election and was dropped from the voter rolls in 2005 as inactive.

Before that, Fiorina lived in Montgomery County, Md., where the registrar's office said they reviewed state databases and found no listing of Fiorina's voter registration.

Fiorina strongly disputes the voting records as "just wrong," her spokeswoman, Beth Miller, said. Miller said Tuesday that Fiorina has no records to prove her past voting record and has acknowledged her failure to vote in some elections. But while "she didn't vote all the time ... she did vote," the spokeswoman added.

In June, The Chronicle reported that Fiorina had voted in just five of 18 national, state and local elections in which she was eligible to cast a ballot since she registered in Santa Clara County in 2000, according to public records. At the time, Fiorina's chief of staff, Deborah Bowker, said, "It's never good not to vote."

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