Election Day 2013 in Butler County has us dwelling on a lyric from a 1960s Elvis Presley hit:

“A little less conversation, a little more action please.”

While there is plenty of action in today’s political arena, with many municipal seats to be filled across Butler County, a second glance reveals that few of the races are contested.

That’s a recipe for low turnout — 20 percent or fewer, predicts Shari Brewer, director of elections — and you can’t blame the weather.

Maybe we’re all turned off by the deadlock on Washington, where political battle lines are entrenched, the mood is bitterly partisan and the popularity polls just keep falling.

But Butler County is not Washington. It’s not even Harrisburg. Here, an individual vote still has some clout — but only if the individual voter uses it.

Among the offices up for election are school board, township supervisors, borough council seats, mayors, tax collectors, auditors, constables, judges of election and inspectors of election.

The scenario is ripe for upsets. When the vote count is low, it takes fewer votes to rally a candidate to victory.

Many of the offices have no candidates at all, and write-in votes could decide the winners. That’s especially true in Slippery Rock, where write-in candidates are campaigning to unseat incumbent borough council members over a contentious bulk trash issue.

For school boards, there only are two contested races — six candidates running for four seats on the Butler School Board, and two candidates vying for a lone two-year seat in Region 1 on the Slippery Rock School Board.

In Butler Township, three candidates are seeking two seats as commissioners.

Other contested races on the ballot include: township supervisors in Buffalo, Center, Clinton, Cranberry, Fairview, Jefferson, Lancaster, Muddy Creek, Oakland, Summit and Washington townships; council members in Butler, Chicora, Connoquenessing, Evans City, Prospect, Saxonburg, West Liberty and West Sunbury; mayors in Butler, Harrisville, Karns City and West Liberty.

Countywide, there are no contested races. Republicans hold all the offices. Seeking re-election are Lisa Lotz, clerk of courts; William Young III, coroner; and Mike Slupe, sheriff. Ben Holland is unopposed in his bid to succeed longtime Controller Jack McMillin, who is retiring at the end of the year.

The ballot’s lone statewide race, for Superior Court, pits Democrat Jack McVay, an Allegheny County Common Pleas Court judge, and Republican Vic Stabile, an attorney from Cumberland County. Two state Supreme Court justices — Max Baer, a Democrat, and Ronald Castille, a Republican — and two Superior Court judges — Susan Peikes Gantman, a Republican, and Jack Panella, a Democrat — are up for retention.

Voters will not be required to present photo identification. A Commonwealth Court judge has postponed the enforcement of the state’s voter ID law while a legal challenge over its constitutionality plays out.

All voters will be asked, but not required, to show photo ID. But first-time voters and those casting ballots for the first time at a new polling place will be required to show either a photo ID, such as a Pennsylvania driver’s license, or a non-photo ID with the voter’s name and address, such as a utility bill.

Polls remain open until 8 p.m. Don’t just talk about it. Casting your ballot will be the most satisfying thing you can do today.