It's not even about that because with that you usually have to go through party politics and all that. I mean there are places where elected positions for these obscure but somewhat important/influential positions get literally no one running because the previous person who was in that position died, because it's usually old people, so the most schizo or retarded people can run and get in easily because no one else is running because the population is small or the position is obscure and no one is willing to run for that position.