OMG, voter intimidation! Tim Robbins, wife domestic partner of Susan Sarandon, involved the police today when his name didn't come up as registered for voting at the McBurney YMCA at West 14th Street. When Robbins kicked up a fuss and demanded his right to vote, a registration worker threatened to call the police. The police! Don't these people know who Tim Robbins his common-law wife is??

“Is this some kind of intimidation? I’m taking this as intimidation.” He added that he was prepared to be arrested, if necessary.

It did not get to that. Mr. Robbins was offered the chance to fill out an affidavit ballot. He filled it out, but did not submit it, and instead insisting on speaking to an official from the city’s Board of Elections, who informed him that he could go to the board’s Manhattan office, at 200 Varick Street, near West Houston Street. There, board officials verified that Mr. Robbins was indeed a properly registered voter, in the board’s database.
Mr. Robbins said he did not suspect anything “nefarious” in his case, noting that his partner, Ms. Sarandon, who is also politically active, did not encounter any voting problems.

Oh. So there was a mix-up at the polling station and Mr. Robbins had to vote somewhere else? Yawn. Call us when some actually disenfranchised people aren't allowed to vote, and it makes it into the news.