Once you've got all 3 town employees, the police force/posse and half-to-all of the town council in on it, it's not like it's impossible to get a particular jud

Once you've got all 3 town employees, the police force/posse and half-to-all of the town council in on it, it's not like it's impossible to get a particular judge elected. Get an extreme hard-ass, a crook, or just someone's lawyer cousin on the bench in a lightly-contested non-partisan election, and it'll be basically impossible to get a ticket thrown out.