article_snippet: Ferguson's population elected officials did not.
article_snippet: Ferguson, like most municipalities, holds elections in April of odd-numbered years.
article_snippet: Ferguson also holds nonpartisan elections, which means that there are no party labels on the ballot.
article_snippet: Although Missouri does not track the race of Missouri voters, according to an article in The Washington Post, Catalist, a private voter data firm, performed a study and found that the voting rules operating in Ferguson effectively suppress the black vote.
article_snippet: Similarly Ferguson's local judges are nonrepresentative.
article_snippet: Local judges are appointed by the Ferguson City Council upon nomination by the mayor for a two-year term.
article_snippet: The Ferguson Municipal Court is also all-white.
highlights_snippet: Ferguson political system has done so with the timing and type of elections, Dorothy Brown says .
  