{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"John Brindle","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nJonathan Edward Brindle, known professionally as John Brindle, is the Republican Register of Deeds for Rowan County, North Carolina. He has served continuously since 2014 and was re-elected in the November 2022 general election.\n\n## Career\nBrindle first served as Rowan County Register of Deeds from 2008 to 2010. He lost the 2010 election but returned to the office in 2014. A notable accomplishment of his tenure has been digitizing the entire inventory of records held by the Register of Deeds office. Rowan County holds approximately 25 percent of all land records in the state of North Carolina.\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [Register of Deeds digitizes its entire stock of records \u2013 Salisbury Post](https://www.salisburypost.com/2016/07/11/210643/)\n- [2] [John Brindle \u2013 Rowan County Staff Directory](https://www.rowancountync.gov/directory.aspx?EID=565)","firstname":"Jonathan","lastname":"Brindle","middlename":"Edward","suffix":null,"token":"001a566f19108b22"},"token":"dJT6_R2uqKjPSz9x"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"register_of_deeds","o.office":"register_of_deeds","office":"register_of_deeds","officedescription":"The register of deeds maintains the county's permanent public record of real-property instruments \u2014 deeds, mortgages, liens, and plats \u2014 and collects the state transfer and mortgage taxes on them. The record the office keeps is the legal backbone of property ownership.","officequalities":"- Records management of deeds, mortgages, liens, plats, and other instruments affecting title to land.\n- Working knowledge of Tennessee recording statutes, the recording-tax schedule, and the increasingly-electronic submission workflow used by title companies.\n- Accuracy and indexing discipline \u2014 an error in the register's records can cloud title for years.\n- Public-access service: the records are open, and the office serves both professional users and individual property owners.\n- Budget and technology literacy for maintaining a searchable, modern record system.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"Register of Deeds","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Rowan County Register Of Deeds"}