Humboldt County voters are strange political animals.

We linked to this Editorial back on Election Day, but thought several points were worth revisiting:

◼ Especially when it comes to their own backyard. - Times-Standard EDITORIAL from 11/08/2013

The numbers tell the tale: When it comes to national and state elections, Humboldt County voter turnout regularly exceeds statewide turnout.

November 2012, presidential election: California 71.3 percent, Humboldt County -- 72.6 percent.

June 2012, California primary: California 32.4 percent, Humboldt County -- 41.99 percent.

November 2011, Humboldt County consolidated election: Humboldt County -- 22.47 percent.

When it comes time to pick a candidate in a national contest in which California's electoral votes are pretty much a foregone conclusion, or when it's time to put our pinky on the scales of Golden State politics when other, larger communities are piling thumbs and whole limbs atop the works in Sacramento, that's when Humboldt County voters flock to the polls.

When it comes to picking the women and men among us who will direct the course of schooling, water, sewage and firefighting in our own neighborhoods? Crickets. Voters disappear in droves.

The Humboldt County Clerk/ Recorder's Office says that 67,450 of you are eligible to vote in (November's) election. Recent history says most won't.

Any one of you can help change that.

It's food for thought.