Remove unnecessary code from HaBeanIT
Revisits logging in ElectionState and ClusterConfiguration

Commit 956dc3e1a8edd91a2a3710e2c71326b16a849de7 added some extra
 logging in ElectionState and ClusterConfiguration in order to hunt
 down a bug. It turns out this logging is useful to keep in production
 too. This commits sets proper levels, cleans it up a bit.

Cleans up some superfluous casts that appeared in the code.
Merge pull request #1472 from digitalstain/election-logging

Revisits logging in ElectionState and ClusterConfiguration