Vegan democracy threatened! Ham Sandwich running for office

Totally stolen from Alyce’s recent TVP submission (nyah nyah, daily schedule beats weekly schedule, or hey, I’ll scoop myself if that’s what it takes), there’s an election going down somewhere in Virginia where voters will get to choose between the incumbent (who has run unopposed for the past 12 years) and a ham sandwich. Mr Sandwich isn’t actually on the ballot – the campaign is a write-in thingerwhatzit – so this candidate could in theory run anywhere that write-ins are allowed, but this gives little comfort to vegan voters (though having “Dillon Pikkel” as a campaign manager is pretty cool). If you’re looking for a vegan-er approach to democracy, a similar campaign ran in 2000 involving a politicized army of ficus plants. I imagine we’ll have some goofy discussions on the matter this Saturday, so if you’d like to contribute to the conversation, the comments would be a good place to do it.