Comment on How am I supposed to decide who to vote for in local elections?
treadful@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Campaign materials and newspaper articles. In the US, it’s pretty rare even for small communities, not to find at least some of this information online.
HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
What I can find all say seem to say more or less the same things about every candidate.
testfactor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Do they have the exact same amount of experience as well?
Like, even if their platforms are the same, they probably have different backgrounds and accomplishments.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Thank you for mentioning experience. Voting on local elections is basically being in charge of a job interview. In a lot of cases, their stance on policy issues matters far less than their ability to do the job well.
notnotmike@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I would look up your local paper specifically, if you haven’t already. They aren’t always going to show up in search results.
My local paper often does a brief “meet the candidates” piece for the city council, so you may find the same. Although they won’t have everything all the time