# The weird and the wacky on election day

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**Created:** [November 5, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-weird-and-the-wacky-on-election-day/135413 "2002-11-05T19:24:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 5, 2002, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-weird-and-the-wacky-on-election-day/135413/1 "2002-11-05T19:24:07Z")

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In New Mexico, voters will consider whether to change the constitution to allow"idiots and insane persons" the right to vote. Their constitution specifically prohibited such voters, in exactly that wording.

In Montana, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate is blue. No, I don’t mean sad. He’s BLUE.

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> Specifically, silver is in the Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate, Stan Jones, and silver is in him to such an extent that he has turned blue, or blue-gray, depending on how you look at him. His condition is known as argyria, and he developed it three years ago after drinking a homemade colloidal-silver concoction, in preparation for Y2K-related antibiotics shortages.

Sorry, couldn’t find a picture of Senator Smurf.

In Oklahoma, voters will decide whether cockfighting should be made illegal. No, it isn’t already. And the support for outlawing it is only about 55-45 percent.

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Our country is goofy.