I also vote by mail and it usually takes me longer in non-presidential years because there's more offices to vote for and zero local campaigning. So I have to creep on people on social media to know if I'm comfortable with them having the powers of prothonotary.

[–] MonkeMischief 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's so much "fun" with all those tiny local offices. "Okay who is this person?"

Zero public web presence about them at all.

It'd be nice if there was something like Ballotpedia but public owned. "You want to run for an office? You need to fill out this profile."

I imagine lots of people are just like "Eh, this name sounds pretty." Lol

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

For one the only thing I could find was a locked-down Facebook profile.

They were running unopposed.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

zero local campaigning

That's usually true here as well. This year is the only time I have seen someone campaign. I know him and he's an amazing guy, so I hope he wins, but I have just never seen local politicians willing to go out and press the flesh.

He works for one of the local TV stations as a "one-man-band" (someone who goes out with a camera and gets the story and the interview and such themselves, but doesn't get a reporter credit), so he knows how to talk to people, likes to talk to people, and he's well-known in the community.

That's it. Him. No one else ever.

Probably why we had the same Republican mayor for four terms.