appointive

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“Is it really an appointive process if there’s a vote being taken?” said Judge Roderick Young, a Trump appointee.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2024

As president of the city’s appointive Board of Elections in 1972-73, Dinkins widened voter rolls.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2020

Comey: I think I’m done in governments, certainly in an appointive role, I would never run for office, but an appointed role in government.

From MSNBC • Jun. 26, 2019

In fact, Bush rose in the Party because of electoral, not appointive, politics.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 1, 2018

A patron of young Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he held other state appointive offices before getting himself named chairman of the new State Commission on Prison Reform.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover