Hey, sometimes your finger gets overactive in hitting the send buttons on those email alerts. Still, a one-line email containing information reported by another news organization—an election result in another state, for instance—should not be too difficult.

Unfortunately, the email alerts team at WJLA had one of those evenings last night when alerting subscribers of the results of yesterday’s 10 Republican presidential primaries and caucuses. Delegates were briefly awarded to the wrong candidates, names were botched and for those following Super Tuesday via emails from a local television station, the whole primary process was briefly upended. Witness:

7:04 p.m.:

Mitt Romney wins Georgia primary, the AP reports.

That’s not right. The Associated Press, along with everyone else monitoring yesterday’s elections, called Georgia for someone else just moments after polls closed at 7 p.m. A few minutes later, WJLA tried again.

7:07 p.m.:

We apologize for the error. New Gingrich won Georgia.

New Gingrich? As opposed to the old Gingrich? Eh, close enough. (For the record, Newt Gingrich, a Virginia resident who refused to vote there yesterday after not qualifying for the ballot, won the Georgia Republican primary with 47.4 percent of the vote.)