As David Brauer and Emily Kaiser both point out, Michele Bachmann’s Tuesday appearance on Hannity & Colmes also included another “retread”: the now-disproven story about 32 ballots being left in Minneapolis election director Cindy Reichert’s car. Reichert says it never happened, Secretary of State Mark Ritchie swears the same, and even Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty acknowledges there’s no evidence of wrongdoing in the way ballots were processed. Last week Sean Hannity presented the discredited story as fact, and on yesterday’s program, he did nothing to correct Bachmann about it. Coincidentally, FoxNews.com also ran with the story yesterday, repeating the allegation, while at the same time stating that Coleman’s lawyers “accepted a statement from the city attorney assuring them that the ballots had been safely stored.” But the headline telegraphs Fox’s — and Coleman’s — main point: “Coleman Campaign Questions 32 Ballots in Close Race With Franken.” The piece gives the last word to Coleman attorney Fritz Knaak, who remains “skeptical” about the car-ballot story. And he repeats yet another fiction, an identical fact that Bachmann bungled on Hannity & Colmes — that every one of those 32 votes went to Franken (16 did). “We’re not looking to pick fights. All I care about is that those 32 ballots didn’t appear out of the ether for Al Franken,” he said. “That’s all I care about.”