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Puppets can’t vote—well, they can’t really do much at all without human fists up their backsides—but they will be descending on Washington a few days before the November 6 presidential election.

The so-called “Million Puppet March” is being organized as yet another response to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s statement during a presidential debate on October 3 that, if elected, he would pull taxpayer funding from PBS. “I like Big Bird,” Romney said before pledging to pluck the eight-foot canary of his federal feathers.

But the Million Puppet March is calling on far more than the Muppets who inhabit Sesame Street. (It’s not sanctioned by either PBS or Sesame Workshop.) In addition to Muppet-lovers, organizers are hoping to recruit sock puppets, finger puppets, marionettes, mascots and even shadow puppets.

That last group might be a bit difficult to see at the rally, considering the Million Puppet March is scheduled for the National Mall in the middle of the day on November 3. Also, the event’s website makes no mention of ventriloquism dummies. So much for the Jeff Dunham vote.

On its Facebook page, the Million Puppet March has already recruited more than 1,000 puppeteers and their fawning fans.