21.   The court ruled that citizens do not have a fundamental right to elect administrative officials like school board members.

22.   The fight concerns not just a landfill, but also money, and the way elected officials treat constituents.

23.   The municipal officials are elected on a direct vote count.

24.   The problem has not gone unnoticed by police and elected officials.

25.   The residents, who stood outside the building this morning as environmental officials and elected officials made the announcement, praised the decision.

26.   Their top officials were elected on the sheer strength of their personality and often sounded like Republicans.

27.   These officials may be elected, but what they do rarely gets much scrutiny.

28.   They add spice to the process of electing public officials and demonstrate that democracy is a dynamic, ever-changing force.

29.   This was perhaps because Quackenbush is, after Jones, now the most important Republican elected official in the state.

30.   With barely a hint of violence or intimidation, South Africans returned to the polls in droves, this time to elect local officials.