Norfolk mayor, councilwomen Angelia Williams Graves and Andria McClellan reelected without opposition

Now you are just being obtuse.

If you can't maintain a political conversation without personal insults, then just stop.

The other person didn't make it on the ballot because they didn't complete the few tasks it takes to get on a ballot.

Correct, this is clear and obvious and I even stated in response to you that he should have been able to.

That is entirely on them, not the state of our democracy which has plenty of other problems.

No, that's not the case at all, they didn't put the barrier to entry in place, so no, that barrier is not entirely on them at all.

And the presence of other problems in our democracy doesn't mean that single candidate elections aren't a problem. "We have other problems as well!" is not an argument at all.

it isn't because people are being prevented from running by corrupt or malicious forces.

I didn't say anything about corrupt or malicious forces. It sucks when people insult you and then misrepresent you, but here you are doing that.

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