[WIP] Adds draft local elections page

[shannonmcharg]

I added a placeholder local elections page that we can use to start adding links to county and city/town websites.

A few things that need to be figured out:

• I was only able to find lists of cities and towns, not sure if there are other levels like township that need to be added.
• The image isn't sizing to the thumbnail. Not sure how to do that.
• I'd like this to always be the last item in the list on the homepage, but I don't know how to force rank that list.

[rentry]

In my opinion, local elections don't fit neatly with the statewide ballot questions, and should probably have a different structural solution.

That could involve creating local elections pages in the _pages directory instead, and then adding a link to the page on the homepage or nav menu, separate from the _posts directory and display. You could separate the homepage into separate state and local sections, and use similar logic to publish the appropriate (current) local election page(s).

[shannonmcharg]

@rentry This is meant to be an MVP that just has links to websites for local elections because we haven’t found anyone who even has that. We won’t know the extent of the questions for local elections until we get the list compiled, but I’m guessing we won’t have bandwidth for pages for all of them. Would it be better as a link that’s not part of the thumbnails?

[rentry]

I wasn't suggesting pages for each, just a landing page for local elections. My suggestion is to create a page located in the _pages directory (instead of _posts). You can then add a link anywhere you want.

Assets in the _posts directory behave differently than those in _pages, at least how we have it set up now. My expectation is that you probably don't want the local election page to behave in the same way as the ballot question pages. If that's the case, you can manage it as a page in the _pages directory and then link it wherever you want (if successful at populating the content).

Just suggestions! 👍

[shannonmcharg]

@rentry Good point about the behavior of the posts. I'll figure out a better place to put it.

[shannonmcharg]

@rentry I moved the local elections page out of the posts, but the only way I could get the header and footer to show up on the page was to use the posts layout. I tried copying the posts layout to create a new layout, but the header and footer when away when I did that. How do I get those to show up on a new layout?

[shannonmcharg]

@rentry I changed it to the archive layout that is also used on the bonds page and that works.

[shannonmcharg]

I'm going to go ahead and merge this now that county and city websites are all in. I'll create a new PR for adding links to additional towns and townships.