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Druge must be holding the lines open for the Rovians. What a surprise!

Of course, an actual reporter talked to an actual witness, quickly found out the Republicans were wrong:

An electronic voting machine at a polling place at the Salvation Army in North Philadelphia had votes registered on it before polling began today, according to a story on the Drudge Report this morning. The report said the same was true at four other polling places in the city.

Ed Kirlin, a volunteer with the Democratic Party, went to the Salvation Army at 11th and Huntington to take a look at the machine, he said.

He said whoever had given the information to Drudge looked at the wrong number. The machine has two number wheels. One is a running total of the number of votes cast since the machine went into use. The second is the number of voters in the current election. That number was zero, as it should have been, he said. The person reporting to Drudge looked at the number of people voting on the machine before this election.

"I think it's an attempt at misinformation. They didn't go to any party officials," Kirlin said of whomever made the complaint. "They went right to the Drudge Report."

Kerry's state communications chief, Mark Nevins, said he was unsure who passed the report to Drudge but he suspected the Republican Party.

"They can't win it today, so their gameplan is to extend it into overtime - and try to litigate it to death."
(via Inky)

I love it! They looked the wrong wheel. If only the Republicans were as fearsomely efficient at recgnizing facts as they are at manipulating stories....

More here.

And Drudge publishes a handy map. Just so the wingers can drive in with their SUVs and stage another bourgeios riot, eh?