A recent report offers a way to hold some of these little-attended candidates accountable: turn up the turnout in their races by aligning them with national elections.
Elections like Krasner's are held "Off-cycle," i.e., out of sync with national elections every other November; moving them on-cycle would dramatically increase turnout.
Low turnout plagues local elections, Hartney notes: In school board races, for example, only about 10 to 15 percent of the electorate shows up.
The dismally low turnout for Krasner's various elections is typical in the 40 states.
Off-cycle elections do not depress turnout equally, but tend to afford disproportionate power to those more able to engage in and invested in the political process.
In a low-turnout election, those dollars go much further, because turning out the progressive base is all you really need to do to win.
There are lots of nonpartisan reasons to support on-cycle elections: They reduce redundancy and therefore cost, improve turnout and therefore representation, and curb the power of special interests.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/how-to-hold-soros-prosecutors-accountable/
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