Beverly Perdue left a backdoor in her Web site.

The Democratic gubernatorial candidate's programmers mistakenly linked several times on an issues page to the back-end site where her staff posts new releases.

In short: Anyone who finds the links could write on her campaign site.

"Welcome to the maintenance pages," read the linked page, created by Perdue's programmer, Liberty Concepts.

After Dome alerted the Perdue campaign Monday night, they removed the links before any would-be hackers took the opportunity to make mischief.

The links were in footnotes on Perdue's "Small Business First Approach" page posted Friday. They were removed a half-hour after Dome called the campaign.

Earlier: Perdue's programmers' Google search error. 

Beverly Perdue will announce this fall.

But maybe the lieutenant governor won't announce that she's running for governor. Maybe she'll announce she's running for Senate — and her real name is Tom Allen.

That's one theory anyway. How else to explain the fact that a Google search of her Web site reveals this meta description: "Welcome to the Online Home of Tom Allen for Senate."

The real Tom Allen is a U.S. representative from Maine who's running for his party's nomination to face off against Republican Sen. Susan Collins in 2008.

His Web site was designed by Liberty Concepts, a Democratic-affiliated Web firm. It's likely that Perdue hired the firm, and it used a template from its work for Allen.

Or else, Perdue really is Allen...

Update: The page was fixed a few hours later.

Hat Tip: Blue South