We are just a few weeks from Election Day, on Tuesday, November 7, and campaigns are beginning to accelerate, from the local level on up the chain. This means that voters are learning more about the candidates for whom they are tasked with casting a vote. It stands to reason that the more information citizens have prior to selecting their candidate, the more informed that selection should be.
Here in Livingston, for example, we have one local race this year, for a seat on the school district’s Board of Education. As we have progressed through this election season, the two candidates – Harsh Raju and Fang Gong – have participated in a debate, submitted weekly responses to questions in this newspaper, and been out and about speaking to residents in town. Together, the community, surely, collectively knows more about these two individuals than they did just one month earlier.