California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman scored a victory Thursday when two California newspapers confirmed the former eBay CEO was indeed registered to vote in the state at certain points in the past 20 years. The reports, based on previously undisclosed records, cleared up, to a certain degree, the running debate over Whitman's history of voter participation.
A Sacramento Bee article published Thursday morning said Whitman "registered as a Republican voter in San Francisco in 1982 and also signed up to vote in Santa Clara County in 1999."
The San Jose Mercury News echoed those findings in [an article] (http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13509939%20Hewitt:#) entitled, "Meg Whitman's voting record not as bad as originally portrayed."
Whitman has taking a hammering in the press since the publication of a Sept. 24 Bee story that asserted it could not find evidence of Whitman having registered to vote for most of her adult life. The Whitman campaign pushed back on Monday, sending a letter to the paper's political editor pointing to factual inaccuracies in the story. The letter was also posted on the campaign's Web site.
In a release, the Whitman campaign crowed that the Bee "confirmed our campaign's assertion that its ... story on Meg Whitman's voting history was deeply flawed and inaccurate."
The Bee didn't go quite that far, but Thursday's article did acknowledge that "new information had surfaced" that contradicted some of its previous reporting.
Whitman is facing off in a GOP primary race against state Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former five-term Rep. Tom Campbell. Former governor and current state Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are vying for the Democratic nomination.
CQ Politics rates the general election contest Leans Democrat.
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