Elections

Elections

Last Sunday there were elections for mayors, city councils and prefecture councils in Greece. Which raised two main questions in my mind. The answers that I've gotten that far are not that intuitive.

1. How does the community deal with the fact that mayors deal with some large amounts of money but most of them have no management knowledge (beware: I am not using the word "skills") How do we, as people, control the mayor's deeds? Should the state be prepared to host at least a short term course to teach these people some basics ? Or is just learning by doing the best method (I vote for the former one)

2. Why are the elections in the U.S. on a weekday? Doesn't that decrease the chance of working people to vote? Even though they are allowed to get time off work to go vote, do many do that? Understanding the extra financial cost, wouldn't it make sense to have the elections in the weekend like all the other countried in the world?

If you have answers please let me know.