In his corner office in Kingston, the seat of Ulster County, in upstate New York, acting county clerk Taylor Bruck fidgets with a souvenir baseball stamped with the words “We the People.” The rest of the Constitution’s preamble wraps around its seams. Seated behind his broad wooden desk, the 35-year-old doesn’t exactly look the part of a public official, nor did he ever expect to become one. A chest tattoo peeks out from beneath Bruck’s unbuttoned polo, and whether his untidy mop of hair is an aesthetic choice or a by-product of having a newborn at home is hard to tell. Considering that he spends much of his workday performing perfunctory administrative tasks, Bruck certainly never anticipated that during his first year in office he’d interact…