Indy Week, of Raleigh, North Carolina, has this story about the failure of the Republican and Democratic Parties to nominate anyone for Wake County Board of Elections by the legal deadline. The reporter tried to get a comment from both major parties, but neither of them was willing to comment.
Wake County is the county that includes Raleigh, the state capital.
One advantage of a monarchy is that the crown makes appointees such as these.
Course they are so long distracted of what happens to their party future, They can’t doing this.
Jim in a constitutional monarchy the crown only makes appointments on the advice of the government.
If there is no advice there can be no appointment.
See the LAWLESS monarchs/oligarchs in the zillion international and civil wars — esp. in causing WW I and WW II.
P.R. and App.V.
Chris,
Nonetheless, there is a sense that they are serving the crown (and country).
Imagine if the returning officers were elected on a partisan ticket.
In California, they had a debate among the candidates for Secretary of State. One candidate said that administering elections was their dream job. Another said they wanted to improve registrations of corporations, which in California are kept on index cards.
The Democratic candidate, who was term-limited in the senate, said that the reason to vote for him was to help Diane Feinstein pass the $15/wage. He was elected.
Jim yes indeed there is much more of a ‘public service’ ethos here and appointments are generally made on merit – though there are some exceptions. Chairs of public bodies are generally there to chair the meetings of the board and provide advice to the appointed officials. They don’t run the organisations – they provide oversight and accountability.
People in the UK would be horrified if elections were run for the convenience of and under the control of the parties.
In the UK Returning officers – who run elections – are the Chief Executive of the local council who are all non partisan appointments – even in Boroughs which are almost one party states.
The people who run day to day electoral registration etc are all local council employees employed based on knowledge and experience and not which party they support or who they know.
On election day polling station workers are generally existing local council workers or temporary staff and very unlikely to be party workers because they are expected to be getting the vote out!
The most contentious aspect of elections that councillors decide is generally the location of polling stations and even then most simply agree to the officers recommendations!