This vote is for those who are familiar with the forum, the moderators, and the forum rules. Those who care enough about those three things are likely to be people who read meta. Those who do not read meta are probably those that don't care about forum happenings, and we don't really want their vote because they will not be as informed as those who do.

The electioneering aspect is that such posts essentially tell people in that section to go and vote even though normally they wouldn't. Because the poster is also a candidate and moderator of that section, it inherently biases the votes from people in that section towards that moderator (just like how I have votes probably mostly due to the fact that I made the thread). If all the local mods made such a post, it would bias the vote towards the local moderators because those of us who are not local mods would not be able to make such a post in our own sections to get people from our sections to vote. Thus, such posts should not exist as they make the voting unbalanced.