RE: When you don't punish people, they repeat the bad behavior

we have a number of local elected officials that seem to just keep their position without most people even knowing that they have a job. I contemplated running for city council a few times in the past but know that the system is kind of rigged in their favor. They have convinced or paid a certain amount of people to turn up to vote for them even when I think most of the people in the community don't even have any idea that there is an election taking place. It's a small scale thing but I believe the people who have these jobs don't actually want the community to know that there is an election for their position.