Saratoga Springs City Hall.

Election fatigue is likely widespread at the moment. Nevertheless, elections are good, right? We should all be able to agree on that, which is what makes an ongoing fight in Saratoga Springs so confounding.

Among the city's elected officials, there seems to be a strange resistance to holding a special election.

Here's the situation: Jason Golub in August vacated his position as city commissioner of public works to take a job with the state. The city charter, meanwhile, mandates that a special election be held if a vacant term goes beyond the calendar year.

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The necessary action, then, is simple: The city needs to schedule a special election. Please excuse us for stating the obvious.

Alas, few things are ever simple in Saratoga Springs government. And in this case, as Times Union reporter Wendy Liberatore has detailed, city........

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