I searched for Athens, GA, and two positions in Chicago were included in the results:
https://www.runforoffice.org/elected_offices_search?address=...
Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for
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#62This doesn't appear to include student offices, which, especially at large state universities, are very powerful and misunderstood. If you are a student, consider running for student office. It's likely (in fact almost certain) that your student government makes more decisions that impact your life and spends more of your money than the national government does. They typically have multi-million dollar budgets, seats…
Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.
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#63I work fulltime. Can we filter for positions that do not require a fulltime commitment?
That's going to very much vary depending on the size of the jurisdiction of the office but for NC they only have state level positions which will all be full time.
As far as I know anything above a very small town position will be full time.
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#64This is a great demonstration of the ways that people with technical skills can contribute to improve their communities. Enabling others to exercise their civic duties is just as valuable as exercising them yourself.
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#65There's a powerful social permission / imposter syndrome thing that works against people running for office, so an effective thing you can do even if you yourself can't bring yourself to stand for office is to convince friends to do it, and offer to support their candidacies. I've found it's remarkably easy to have that conversation with people. Ultimately, telling someone you'd support them if they ran for elected o…
Can confirm that it really works. I suggested to an old mentor a couple years back that he should run for office. He eventually (somewhat reluctantly) did, and found that it was surprisingly easy to get into, even without a large network of influence. It's pretty positively telling that even he, a fairly socially awkward guy, could get as far as he did. Since lots of tech folk fit that mold, it would be great to see more like him run for office. Hint, hint, y'all. ;)
Btw - any thoughts on what kind of applications can be built here?
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#66There's a powerful social permission / imposter syndrome thing that works against people running for office, so an effective thing you can do even if you yourself can't bring yourself to stand for office is to convince friends to do it, and offer to support their candidacies. I've found it's remarkably easy to have that conversation with people. Ultimately, telling someone you'd support them if they ran for elected o…
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#67This would be much more useful if they displayed some election statistics and information on incumbents and political parties. The stated purpose of the tool is: > Today, 40% of state legislature races go uncontested and the problem is worse at the local level. There is a crisis of leadership occurring in our democracy. We need more people to lead. We need more people to run for office. > Run for Office is a free ser…
This (local political action) is something I've found interesting for a while, but never enough to actually get involved. Seeing this made me look up some data for the area around me, since I was curious and the OP didn't have enough data for my area.
Apparently the town council elections are coming up soon, with several slots available. If I'm reading through this data correctly, it would take about 2% of the town's residents to vote for a council member to knock out the incumbents, based on last year's election. Someone somewhat active in the community can probably arrange that.
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#68This doesn't appear to include student offices, which, especially at large state universities, are very powerful and misunderstood. If you are a student, consider running for student office. It's likely (in fact almost certain) that your student government makes more decisions that impact your life and spends more of your money than the national government does. They typically have multi-million dollar budgets, seats…
Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.
> Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.
Same here but getting anything done is tremendously difficult. Even something simple like extended hours for the cafeteria (it was a tiny school) takes multiple semesters with being bounced back and forth between administration and Sodexo. My understand is that they'll gladly (one time) throw money at you if you say the right words but they are very cautious about anything that sounds like a long term commitment.
Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for
#69This would be much more useful if they displayed some election statistics and information on incumbents and political parties. The stated purpose of the tool is: > Today, 40% of state legislature races go uncontested and the problem is worse at the local level. There is a crisis of leadership occurring in our democracy. We need more people to lead. We need more people to run for office. > Run for Office is a free ser…
The key here is "who is supported by the dominant political party". The tea party gained so much clout because they got organized to contest internal elections and primaries inside the GOP.
It's much more efficient to leverage the existing party infrastructure than to run as a solo independent or try to create a 3rd party.
Party elections (for instance, county committee elections) draw much less turnout and can be swayed much more easily by an organized group.
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#70Is there a site like except is tells me the exact day to go vote?