so what happened?

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South Carolina Senate Candidate Refuses To Drop Out | The Onion - America's Finest News Source | American Voices:

"I don't care what he does, I'm voting for the guy named Al Green."

I know that one group is already trying to assert allegations of voting machine fraud (made unresolvable because the machines don't have an audit trail, thus adhering to the modern philosophical belief that a vote is worth less than a $20 bill), but this (fake onion) comment suddenly hit me: was this a Distinguished Gentleman situation, where people voted on a "name they knew"?