While it may not be likely, Clay Aiken could actually be prosecuted over voting in last month's school board election.

As noted in today's aricle by Josh Shaffer, the Wake County Board of Elections will hold a hearing on Wake GOP Chairman Claude Pope's challenge of Aiken's voter registration status. Although Pope's press release says they're not seeking punitive action against Aiken, that might not matter.

The Wake Board of Elections will first decide whether Aiken should still be registered to vote in the county. They'll ask Aiken questions such as where his pets spend the night and where he goes to sleep at night.

For those who wondered why we wrote about Clay Aiken's riff on the school board elections, you'll love this news.

The Wake County Republican Party sent a press release this evening saying that GOP Chairman Claude Pope is challenging Aiken's right to remain registered to vote in the county.

Aiken has a home in Chatham County but is registered to vote at his mother's home in North Raleigh. Voter registration records show he voted in last month's school board elections.

Get ready to rumble, Claymates.

Your Clay Aiken is taking on the Wake County School Board, so that means you are taking on the school board, too! You gotta have Clay's back, right?

The "American Idol" runner-up called the newly-elected board members "selfish idiots" on his blog recently (and apparently also called Carrie Prejean a "dumbass"). So go ahead and start your internet campaigns!

Click over to read all the details on the N&O news side. 

We may have the Claymates taking on the new Wake school board.

In a blog post on his web site Thursday, Aiken says "he's extremely disappointed" by the election results. The former American Idol contestant and Leesville Road High student calls the new school board members “selfish idiots” and says he hopes the public can get rid of them before they “ruin the school system.”

“What happened to Wake County Schools?!?1,” Aiken writes. “Now that i have a kid i am so much more invested and I am EXTREMELY disappointed that so many selfish idiots ran and won seats on the school board. i hope we can get rid of them as soon as possible before they ruin my school system. Idiots.”

UPDATE

Click here for the online story.

Click here for Saturday's article, including the response from new board members.

For those of you having trouble selling your house in today's market, here's something to investigate.

Has a famous person ever lived in your house? If the answer is yes, did they do anything memorable while living there?

We bring all this up because a real estate agent in New Jersey is selling the Jersey Shore cottage where Bruce Springsteen supposedly wrote the entire Born to Run album in 1974 and 1975. You can read the listing here.

"Bruce has spoken publicly about living there," the listing notes, "... how he would sit on the porch or sit on the edge of his bed, writing Thunder Road, Born to Run, Tenth Avenue Freeze Out, Backstreets, She's the One and Jungleland."

The asking price for the 828-square-foot two bedroom, one bath cottage is $299,000. The comps are in the mid-$200s, but the listing notes that surely you can't put a price on a piece of history like this.

"What's it worth?" the listing asks. "It's priceless."

It seems worth noting that said cottage seems quaint when one considers the typical stage that The Boss performs on these days.

Okay, now go ahead and find out if Clay Aiken got his start in your living room.

One of the most delightful surprises on television recently was last month's "30 Rock" season finale, featuring an all-star sing-along on a faux-anthem called "Kidney Now." Elvis Costello served as ringleader, opposite Mary J. Blige and even Raleigh "American Idol" star Clay Aiken. Costello will bring an acoustic band to Cary's Booth Amphitheater for a show on Sunday; and if Aiken were to turn up wanting to crash the party, Costello would probably just roll with it -- the man is used to unusual collaborations, after all.

"Maybe your local boy might want to sing some country?" Costello asked with a laugh during a recent interview. "He can hop on up and do some harmonies with us; maybe some gospel. You never know what might happen!"

Well, probably not. But as to what might really happen at Sunday's show, complete with lots of talk about Costello's new album, check out the interview in Friday's paper.

Adrienne told us yesterday about how Clay Aiken slammed fellow "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert on his blog Thursday. If you didn't click through to the Gawker site to read the entire rant (which has now been deleted from Clay's blog), you may have missed some juicy backstory about Clay being tossed from the "American Idol" set when he showed up there recently to meet Lambert.

According to The Chicago Sun-Times, Aiken showed up at the "American Idol" set and . . .

Our guest bloggers shared what they thought of this season's "American Idol."

Now we can share what Clay Aiken thought.

Apparently, he wasn't pleased, and he posted negative remarks on his official blog about presumed frontrunner Adam Lambert, calling his performance of "Ring of Fire" "contrived, awful and slightly frightening!"

Not sure how much screen time Clay Aiken will get tomorrow night on 30 Rock's season finale, but here's a sneak peek of the episode featuring Clay, Elvis Costello, and Mary J. Blige. Jack tries to convince Clay to participate in a charity concert, revealing that he's NBC page Kenneth's cousin. Surely they let him talk later on, right? A scene with Kenneth, please!!

30 Rock airs on NBC at 9:30pm Thursday night.

That's the question in this New York Times article. And  yes, they're alluding to maybe/maybe not Adam Lambert.  And yes, Clay Aiken comes up.