Charles Darwin Gets Nearly 4K Write-In Votes Against Rep. Paul Broun

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Charles Darwin received nearly 4,000 write-in votes in the congressional race against Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who recently decried evolution and the Big Bang as “lies straight from the pit of hell.”

The Athens Banner-Herald reports:

A spot check Thursday of some of the other counties in the east Georgia congressional district revealed a smattering of votes for Darwin, although it wasn’t always clear, based on information provided by elections offices in those counties, whether those votes were cast in the 10th District race. And because the long-dead Darwin was not a properly certified write-in candidate, some counties won’t be tallying votes for him, whether in the congressional race or other contests.

 

A campaign asking voters to write-in Darwin’s name in the 10th Congressional District, which includes half of Athens-Clarke County, began after Broun, speaking at a sportsmen’s banquet at a Hartwell church, called evolution and other areas of science “lies straight from the pit of hell.”

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