Occupy Athens, which a few weeks ago couldn’t draw more than a few
people to its General Assembly, has pulled off some electoral theater
seen nation-wide:
write-in candidate Charles Darwin drew 16% of the vote against
evolution-denier Paul Broun in Congressional district 10.
Natalie Jennings wrote for the Washington Post 9 November 2012,
Charles Darwin earns nearly 4,000 write-in votes against Ga. Rep. Broun,
Darwin, who was the original proponent of the theory of evolution
and died in 1882, got nearly 4,000 write-in votes against the
incumbent Broun, according to the
Athens Banner-Herald. Broun, a
physician, is a creationist who in September said evolution was
based on “lies straight from the pit of hell.”
And here’s part of what one of Occupy Athens wrote online today:
