Blanche Lincoln: ‘I Voted!’ (VIDEO)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) with family
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As we reported earlier today, Sen. Blanche Lincoln ran into a little trouble at her polling place in Arkansas this morning when she tried to cast her vote in the Democratic primary. Lincoln was forced to cast a provisional ballot after records showed she had already voted by absentee ballot.

After the seeming mega-fail, Lincoln tried to salvage the ballot-casting photo op with a video taken with her family after she and her husband (he had to fill out a provisional ballot, too) had finished up their business at their polling place. The video makes no reference to her voting troubles, and also doesn’t include any footage of the couple filling out the paperwork required to cast their provisional votes. She’s joined in the video by her two sons.

“Steve and I just voted — and the boys watched us do it,” Lincoln says in the video. No doubt the lads got a good lesson in electoral bureaucracy.

Check out the video:

Lincoln’s camp says she didn’t fill out the absentee ballot she ordered. An elections official said votes like hers are usually counted after absentee ballots are reviewed. That means the provisional ballots she and her husband turned in today will most likely be counted before the night is over.

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