I tend to vote 'yes' for potential Admins I don't know very well, not because I don't care, but because I for the most part trust Igiss and his choices, and have for the most part been pretty good (a few Admins are a bit too zealous, perhaps, but that's been covered already). I really don't see any way to have a community-elected (or re-elected) Admin team without public polls. But, as I mentioned in the last election thread, each poll should be separate or have an 'I don't know him/Abstain' option for each candidate, so that people aren't forced to vote Yes or No to someone they don't know.
Only other way to do it that I can think of is to just let Igiss and the team elect new Admins with no community input at all. Which we really might as well do, since I don't think any potential Admin has ever not been elected... But those election threads at least give dissenters the chance to voice their opinions and can say 'I told you so!' later on if things don't work out well.