Where everything is bipartisan until it is not.
A legislative system with only one chamber, because apparently some governments decided two houses was one too many places for politicians to accomplish nothing. It's democracy's studio apartment—more efficient, cheaper to maintain, but with half the space for checks and balances. Found mostly in smaller countries and U.S. states that decided Nebraska should be unique in some way.
When the federal government requires state or local governments to implement policies without providing money to do so. The political version of assigning homework without providing textbooks.
Agreement by all members to proceed without formal voting or to suspend rules, requiring just one objection to block. It's how legislatures handle routine business quickly until one person decides to be difficult.
The awkward ballot phenomenon where a voter either intentionally or accidentally skips a race, leaving it blank while filling out the rest of their choices. This happens when someone is either protesting both candidates, confused by the ballot design, or just really doesn't care who becomes county treasurer. Election officials obsess over these because they can indicate ballot problems, though sometimes voters just genuinely have no opinion on whether Judge Smith deserves retention.