Committee of Seventy's motto is 'Clean and effective government. Fair Elections. Informed Citizens.'.

It is somewhat democratic: the state and federal elections are mostly clean and sometimes are inspected by foreign organizations to assure "transparency". There are however, some instances of vote robbery and fraud in the local elections.

In Texas there are four elections, which are Primary elections, General elections, Special elections and others.

direct elections

a. General Elections

b. National Elections

c. Local Elections

d. Special Elections