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Originally Posted by Rusty
Three people ran for two selectman positions this year in Alton. One incumbent and two new candidates. The two new candidates won.
Why is that people are so unhappy with local government officials but no one wants to do the job. Also very few people even vote and the majority of them do very little research about who or what they are voting for. IMO we get exactly what we ask for by not taking our voting rights seriously.
Maybe they should do away with elections and have a drawing like they do for jury duty. That way every legal voter of the town gets a chance to run the town for a certain period of time.
It's just to bad that local, state, and federal government officials are looked at as being rotten to core, yet very few people run for office.
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You are correct I believe more folks should care and get involved. On the good side at least we have two new faces!