Talk:Ex-officio member

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This is a mess (see ex-officio) in saying

An ex-officio member was a member of a colonial legislative council or an executive council. They were civil servants who served in a colonial government, appointed to sit in a council or both councils alongside with unofficial members. Ex-officio members were also appointed to unelected or partially-elected municipal councils and district councils.

and i'm going to take a stab at it.
It might be good to turn it into a list with three sections:

• Bodies whose ex-officio members may vote
• Bodies whose ex-officio members may not vote
• Bodies whose with both voting and non-voting ex-officio members

This would support lks clarifying which status is intended by the articles and lists that lk to it. If it grows sufficiently, it could be split into 2 or 3 smaller lists.
A history of the development of the practice belongs in the first section, again until such time as that can become a free-standing article.
--Jerzy•t 03:03, 19 April 2008 (UTC)