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Hillary - 234; Jesus - 23; Chuck Norris - 2

— By Jonathan Stein | Wed November 19, 2008 12:25 PM PST

Via Ben Smith, a tally of the write-in votes in Duval County, Florida:

234 HILARY CLINTON
174 RON PAUL
23 NONE OF THE ABOVE
23 JESUS
21 MIKE HUCKABEE
14 MITT ROMNEY
8 COLIN POWELL
6 GOD
4 OBAMA
4 RUDY GIULLIANI
4 STEVEN COLBERT
3 DONALD DUCK
3 DONALD FOY
3 MICKEY MOUSE
3 T. BOONE PICKENS
2 BILL COSBY
2 CHUCK NORRIS
2 CONDOLEEZA RICE
2 LOU DOBBS
2 PAGO POSSUM
2 SARAH PALIN
2 SEANATOR BROWNBACK

Those receiving one vote included Alfred E. Newman, Bill Clinton, Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, Oprah, Joe the Plumber, Willie Nelson, and "Me."

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      Submitted by Dan (not verified) on November 19, 2008 - 1:03pm.

      Wait, those misspellings are mistakes by you/Ben, not the the original write-ins, right?

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      Submitted by Legacy on November 19, 2008 - 1:52pm.

      Those misspellings are in the original news report, from a local FL TV station. It's unclear if the mistakes are theirs or the voters'.

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      Submitted by Debra (not verified) on November 19, 2008 - 3:11pm.

      Obama got 6 write-in votes?

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      Submitted by kirkbrew (not verified) on November 20, 2008 - 6:33am.

      Debra - No. They meant "Osama". 6 guys in a sleeper cell and they got confused.

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