Here at Slate, we’re unabashed fans of ascendant auteur Lena Dunham, so of course we watched—and highly enjoyed—her adorable new campaign ad for Barack Obama, in which she says your first time (voting, that is) should be with someone really special: 
 
 Together with Monday’s “You Don’t Own Me” get-out-the-vote ad, in which Dunham and other young female writers, actors, directors, and artists lip-synched Lesley Gore’s 1963 classic as facts about Republicans’ opposition to reproductive rights flashed onscreen, Dunham’s “Your First Time” is proof of the Democrats’ savvy in appealing to the portion of the population that some might describe as hipsters. In the new ad, Dunham says, “My first time voting was amazing … I went to the polling station. To be fair, I’d rather lose my voting virginity to Barack Obama than John Kerry, too. If voting is so important, why didn’t she vote when she first had the chance?...According to New York City’s voter file, a Lena Dunham registered in Manhattan voted in the 2008 general election but not the 2004 general election or any local elections between the two..” 
 
 So, despite Ms. Dunham’s assertion that “it’s super uncool to be out and about and someone says, “Did you vote,” and “No, I didn’t vote, I wasn’t ready,” as in her real life, Ms. Dunham waited what is, in these times, considered to be an indecent interval before popping her electoral cherry. From Room Eight, who really dug deep for this one: 
 
 ...I can now report that according to New York City's voter file, a Lena Dunham registered in registered in Brooklyn did not vote in the 2012 general election or in any local elections since she moved from her prior address in Tribeca.
– Potential celebrity scandal alert: Room Eight, a New York politics blog, says Lena Dunham did not vote in 2012. The Girls creator, of course, made a controversial ad last year urging people to vote for Obama. But, while a Lena Dunham is registered to vote in Brooklyn, she didn't actually vote there in last year's presidential election, according to Room Eight. What's more, she was eligible to vote in 2004 and didn't, Slate revealed last year. (Dunham basically admitted this in the aforementioned ad, in which she reveals that her "first time" was with Obama.) And both Slate's and Room Eight's investigations found that Dunham has also failed to vote in any local elections, both when she was registered in Manhattan and now that she's registered in Brooklyn. But, one BuzzFeed commenter thinks it's possible Dunham voted in 2012 by absentee ballot: She was in India at the time, and a Gawker writer asked her two days before the election whether she had voted. Dunham's reply: "Big time."