Are you active in your local government?

Question

I am middle class, pay taxes, average American citizen. Recently I have had major issues with my local government. How do I become more active with campaigns and elections. Is there something I can do to get my community to pay more attention in voting for our officials? I called today and found out that I wont know who is eligible to run until April then the vote will be in July. That seems like its not alot of notice and not alot of time for us to get to know whose running for office. Anybody familar with small town elections would you plase let me know all you know! lol

Answer 1

I've set up myverdict.net with the express purpose of getting people in every community, in every country, to partake in debating every issue, from local level to international and in finding the majority opinion.

Answer 2

No, my local government is much too corrupt for me to take part in it.  It's because of the local police that I'm out $20,000 because they were too lazy to after the guy that stole everything in my business.

Answer 3

No

Answer 4

Your Town Clerk will have all the information you need regarding the upcoming election in your town. You can run for office yourself if you so desire!!! The Town Clerk can provide you information about the Democratic Town Primary and the Republican Town Primary, if you choos to run as a member of these two parties. You may wish to run as an Independent, in order to do this there is usually a petition for you candidacy signed  by as specified number of registered voters to be on the ballot. You can run a write-in-campaign for voting for the position you desire. Right-in-votes are required to be exactly correct!!! (Correct spelling, First Name, Middle Initial (or Middle Name), Last Name)

Sometimes local groups , such as the League of Women Voters sponsor candidate forums , and the candidates come and answer questions posed by the public. (Do you know about a group that would sponsor such a forum in your town, or would you organize you own group to do it. You may want to start you own organization. You could call it: (Your Town's Name Here)  Informed Voting Project!!!!!

If your town has an open town meeting government, articles can be put on the warrant by petitions, signed by a sufficient number of registered voters. (The signigures ned to be legible, and addresses correct. ) The Town Clerk can provide you with all the specifics!!!!

Subjects that might be put on a warrant by petition:

1. To approriate funds for installing electric heating in all the roads in town, so that all the road surfaces will be 50 degrees when the air temperaure is 40 degrees or lesss. preventing accumualtion of snow on the roads in Your Town.

2. An appropriation to install the same technology as above in all the sidewalks in Your Town, theyby prevent pedestrians from falling due to accumation of ice on the sidewalks.

3. A new bylay that requires all landords in town to accept pets as part of the houshold unit, regardless of the number of people in any given household.

4. Petition for new election procedures to be use in town elections: Your Town to adopt the proceedure known as Instant Runnoff Voting.

5. Petition to have all the polls open in Your Town from 12:01 AM until 12:00 PM (midnight) (23 hours 59 minutes) whenever  there is a Federal, State, or Local election in Your Town.

6. Appoint a Committee (to study the promotion and facilitation of voting and voter turnout in Your Town, results to be reported  at a later Your Town Meeting)

7. Appoint a commitiee to advance citizen's knowlege of the rule of parlimentary procedure as used in Your Town at public meetings and town metings.

8. A petition for the town meeting to express a public policy opinion on an issue of importance to Your State or the whole United States of America.

9. Any other issue that you feel is important, or any other bylaw that you feels should be adopted that you want to bring to the attention of the town meeting and have it voted on.

Answer 5

Fortunately, local election campaigns are shorter than national campaigns. You can run yourself or help in another campaign. It's great experience and will give you plenty of connections. There's a lot to successful campaigning. We focus on campaign websites, but we have other information and tips on local politics.