Unexpected elections on the ballot

This morning, I voted in the presidential primary. While generally there are a few more elections on a ballot than the ones you hear mostly about (since some positions have one or zero candidates), I didn’t realize that there would be some on this ballot. In addition to an uncontested race for a “man on state committee”, and a race with no candidates for a “woman on state committee”, which in retrospect shouldn’t be too surprising, there were thirty-five write-in spaces (and no listed candidates) for “town committee”. I’m now wishing I thought to write my own name in on one of the lines.

This quite possibly was the first primary election in which I took part. (In 2004, the Republican primary wasn’t very interesting. It’s also possible that the ballot was quite different because I was living in Worcester. In 2000, I was not yet 18.)