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fortyeridania comments on First(?) Rationalist elected to state government - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: fortyeridania 10 November 2014 06:37:22AM 0 points [-]

Whether they are elected: They are not elected in universal suffrage elections, though they are chosen through a voting mechanism.

Assuming they are not elected, whether it is a good example: The comment to which I was responding used the term "public official" not "elected official." Second, all of the bullet points apply to unelected officials too. In the last bullet point, the constituents would be senior officials.