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"Charles Darwin received 4,000 votes for election to the House of Representatives in Tuesday&amp;#039;s US election. Paul Broun, a Republican from Georgia, is the representative for Georgia&amp;#039;s tenth Congressional district and a member of the US House of Representatives&amp;#039; Science, Space and Technology Committee.  In September, Broun called evolution and the Big Bang Theory &amp;quot;lies straight from the pit of hell&amp;quot;. ABC News reports that this speech led University of Georgia plant biology professor Jim Leebens-Mack to petition for a write-in campaign for Darwin to run against the unopposed Broun in protest. Darwin, who died in 1882, is credited with establishing the theory of evolution. Leebens-Mack said: &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t feel our interests are being best served by an anti-science fundamentalist representing us on the Science, Space and Technology Committee.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I think there could be Democratic opposition, but even more likely is having a rational Republican who understands issues like global warming, scientific reasoning more generally.&amp;quot; The 4,000 votes cast for Darwin in Athens Clarke-County will not count, as Darwin was never certified as a write-in candidate. Broun received 16,980 votes in the area, which in a statement he said is a &amp;quot;higher level of support... than in any of his previous campaigns&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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