Out of ballots in New Hampshire

New Hampshire officials were bracing for a monster turnout in New Hampshire today, but it looks like even they might have been caught unprepared. Here's the screaming headline on Drudge right now: "EPIC TURNOUT FOR DEMS — We Are Out of Ballots!"

But we may have wait to find out what that means. According to pollster Mark Blumenthal, we may not get leaked results until closer to 8 p.m., when the polls close:

In past years, the network consortium that conducts the exit polls distributed mid-day estimates and tabulations to hundreds of journalists that would inevitably leak. In 2006, however, the networks adopted a new policy that restricted access to a small number of analysts in a "quarantine room" for most of the day and did not release the results to the networks and subscriber news organizations until just before the polls closed (information that did ultimately leak to blogs). As far as I know, that process will remain in place today.

UPDATE: More reports of heavy turnout from New Hampshire's largest newspaper.