​Which Statement Is a Criticism of County Governments' Use of the Spoils

question 39

Multiple Choice

​Which statement is a criticism of county governments' use of the spoils system for hiring?

• A)​It can lead to unqualified people holding county jobs.
• B)​It can contribute to a high turnover rate, as new elected officials bring in their own people.
• C)​The employees may represent only a narrow group of people in society.
• D)​The employees may represent only one political party, since their bosses are elected in partisan elections.
• E)​All of these are criticisms.

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Definitions:

Indirection Operator

In programming, an operator that allows access to the value pointed to by a pointer variable; typically denoted by the asterisk (*) in C and C++.

Integer Array

A collection of integers stored in contiguous memory locations, accessible by indexing.

Pointer

A programming construct that stores the memory address of another value or variable.

Indirection Operator

In programming languages like C, it's the '*' operator used to dereference pointer variables, accessing the value at the pointer's address.