Mickey Mouse for mayor

During my week of collecting articles and ideas to talk about I came across this from the BBC. What fascinated me about this dead mayor being elected was not only did the villagers of this Romanian village not only know they were electing a dead guy, they gave a reason. In a further investigation of weird elections I found this on Snopes stating a foot powder won a mayoral election in Ecuador. Apparently the day before a commercial had a election theme and many people wrote it in for a name.