Nevada voters will be disappointed to know that chicken suits are banned from this year’s polling places. Election officials have deemed chicken suits as too political.

The chicken suits appeared after Republican gubernatorial candidate Sue Lowden suggested bartering for health care.

“Before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor… I’m not backing down from that system,” Lowden said.

Election officials are now requiring that people wearing chicken suits stay 100 feet away from the polling place. Those are the same requirements for political activists wearing hats, buttons or holding signs.

The Democratic Party denied plans to send chicken-suited protesters to the polling places under the guise of “chickens for checkups,” The chicken issue has created a sore point in the Lowden campaign. Lowden’s campaign manager called the presence of chicken-suited protesters “Harry Reid’s carnival.”

Lowden has tried to back-off from the chicken bartering idea, stating that it is not part of her health care proposal plan. Her attempt to not answer questions about it or even deny the actual words that she said is turning chickens into a campaign issue and giving Harry Reid some hope that he might survive reelection.