Impropriety, maybe

We're watching CNN on and off today, and about ten minutes ago they had reports of Republicans challenging some of the electronic voting machines in Philadelphia. The claim is that some of the machines had votes already cast on them before the polls open. The explanation so far has been that the machines store all votes cast on them in all elections, so that the votes are in fact from a 2002 midterm election.

Obviously, we have no actual info on this. We're looking for some other report, with little success so far. But we're a bit suspicious about a claim would take machines out of service in a major urban area. Ben, official roommate of VV, would probably say that this is just another GOP tactic to supress black votes in a battleground state. We won't go that far, but we have our doubts.

Josh Marshall has some of the story here.