Heid the Ba' wrote:and that black white supremacist in Milwaukee
Heid the Ba' wrote:Posts that no-one should vote for because competent people should be appointed by competent authorities. Elected sheriffs and judges just make my head hurt. This is how you end up with fuckwits like Joe Arpiao (sp?) and that black white supremacist in Milwaukee. These people fuck your country up more consistently and for longer than the president can.
From my time in North America, I do remember that the election ballots were, well, quite long. Most people would go to vote because they're think about the presidency, the congress, the senate, often the governor of the state, maybe the state legislators. Then there is this long list of candidates for the membership of the local school board, the local town committee, the chief of the fire district, the board of directors of the water reclamation authority, judges for multiple courts at multiple levels in multiple jurisdictions, and so on. Most of these latter people have names that hardly anyone will recognise, unless they are really keen followers of local politics. I suspect must people vote for these lesser offices on the basis of whether there is a "D" or an "R" after the name (or possibly some other designation).