There are also cities where the city council members take turns being mayor. Sometimes this works; sometimes this turns into ludicrous (and possibly hilarious) power struggles.
There are also such entities as school districts, which may overlap each other, causing massive confusion. I don't what the laws are in most states regarding school board representation, but in California each district is divided into trustee areas, so each part of the district is represented.
In small, local elections, voter turnout is often very small, especially in years where there is no big election going on (generally years where there is a presidential election there is a lot of voting; other years, not so much). Winners in small elections are often the people whose name is first on the ballot or who has the most friends at church or other community activity.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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