A 'foot powder' won a mayoral election

Admin2 · Feb 17, 2006

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Foot Powder Wins Election Hands Down

Elections are supposed to be solemn affairs, the occasions when citizens in democracies exercise their right to choose those persons who will represent them in their government. It's sometimes hard to take elections as seriously as we should, though, when we witness such spectacles as dead people running for office, voters mounting write-in campaigns for fictional characters (or other ineligible candidates), or even offices that remain unfilled because no candidates venture to run for them.

Still, in the "unusual elections" category, it's hard to top a contest won not by a human being — not even a fictional one — but by an inanimate object. Yet that's what took place in a 1967 mayoral election in the small Ecuadorian town of Picoazà — an election won by ... a foot powder.

We couldn't really add much more to the story than to reproduce how news dispatches of the time reported it: ....
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admin · Jun 7, 2006

A investigation of Urban Legends has reached a conclusion that this story was actually true.

Link:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/footpowder.asp

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