The race is on for mayor of a Long Island town. There’s just one problem: no one entered the race. Bayville sits on the Long Island Sound, a quaint North Shore village of around 7,000. As the town gets ready to vote for mayor this year, a strange thing has occurred: No one ran for mayor. Th at means, with Election Day approaching, voters will have to write in their choice for the village’s top job. So why will there be no names on this year’s ballot for village mayor? “It’s ridiculous. I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Townsend Cardinale, who has lived in the village for 45 years. “We don’t have the two parties, the local parties we used to have.” Former village mayor Doug Watson said that still monitors local politics, and added that once current Mayor Steve Minicozzi announced in April that he wouldn’t seek re-election, no other person had completed the process needed to get on the ballot and run. Watson served one term as mayor and says the job can be time-consuming and doesn’t pay much: He said that the current mayor receives an annual stipend of $5,000. “I had concerns there was going to be no mayor. That’s what someone was saying, we wouldn’t have a mayor,” said Watson. A mayor will be chosen on June 16. Voters will be asked to write in the name of any village resident they want for the job. Right now, it appears four people may mount a write-in campaign. Residents are waiting to hear more about them…hoping the election doesn’t devolve into chaos. “Some guys comes up there with 50 of his friends. He’s your mayor. If 100 people get one write in each it’s a tie/347. So it’s a strange situation ...read more read less