Voters are being deprived of their right to choose elected officials.

And being a citizen often meant being subject to the city's law in addition to helping to choose officials.

It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.

It seems a strange way of choosing officials.

The Lilliputians, like us, have learnt bad ways - choosing officials because they are able to dance on a rope is just one example.

Mexicans were also choosing governors and local officials in six of the 31 states.

Instead, he would choose more politically neutral officials for the two posts.

Would an election choose municipal officials who would carry out their petty functions while Israel still made the rules of life?

So also, I believe, would the idea that the election should choose not only local officials but Palestinians to carry on political negotiations.

Voters, in more and more cases, are being deprived of their right to choose public officials.