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Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on May 25, 2010

Democrat Nevada voters, leave your chicken suits at home when you go to vote

And all this time, I thought the chicken costumes in Nevada were a statement on Democrat Sen. Harry Reid’s leadership skills…

Wonder if egg-throwing by Reid supporters will also be banned at polling places?

Reported by San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate,Chicken costumes banned at Nev. polling places:

RENO, Nev. – Voters dressed in chicken costumes won’t be allowed inside Nevada polling places this year.

State election officials on Friday added chicken suits to the list of banned items after weeks of ridicule directed at Republican Senate candidate Sue Lowden.

The millionaire casino executive and former beauty queen recently suggested that people barter with doctors for medical care, like when “our grandparents would bring a chicken to the doctor.”

Democrats responded by setting up a website, “Chickens for Checkups,” and by sending volunteers in chicken suits to her campaign events.

Lowden is in a 12-way primary race to decide Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Republican opponent. She had been the front-runner in the race, but was in a virtual tie for the lead in a recent poll.

Under the new rule, chicken costumes will be banned along with political buttons, shirts, hats and signs within 100 feet of polling places.

Washoe County Registrar of Voters Dan Burk said such a costume would be an “inappropriate and obvious” advocacy message against Lowden.

Lowden campaign manager Robert Uithoven hailed the decision.

“I think voters will be spared the Harry Reid carnival and that’s a good thing,” he told The Associated Press. “I think most voters are going to the polls thinking about far greater things than Harry Reid’s chickens.”

Reid spokesman Jon Summers said the Nevada Democratic Party has been sending the volunteers in chicken costumes to Lowden events and he was unaware of any plans for them to show up at the polls.

Democrats stand in front of Sue Lowden's campaign bus in front of her Reno, Nev., office with a dancing chicken, a real chicken and a doctor to protest her statements about health care. | Credit: KOMO News

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