Meg Whitman, a Republican candidate for California governor and former eBay CEO, has come clean on her voting record.

After the Sacramento Bee reported that she only became a Republican in 2007 and could not find any evidence of her voting prior to 2002, Whitman was shamed into making a confession.

“I was focused on raising a family, on my husband’s career, and we moved many, many times. It is no excuse. My voting record, my registration record, is unacceptable.”

Whitman said it is no excuse, and she is right. The rest of us voters have families, careers and move too.

She also said it was a mistake to mislead Republican delegates at the state GOP convention that she had been registered to vote in the 1990’s.

I am not quite sure what to make of her failure to mention her own career in this list, since it is a big part of her platform in running for governor.

An abysmal voting record as Whitman’s does raise some questions about her commitment and understanding of the important of public service.

If she thinks her life was hectic in the past, just wait until she finds out what it is like as governor.