At the local level, community and other organizations occasionally have been used in the administration of national policies. Examples include farmer committees under the income-support and soil-conservation programs of the Department of Agriculture, resource advisory councils for the Bureau of Land Management, and representatives of the poor for Community Action agencies. Participatory democracy of this sort may give those involved considerable influence over the application of programs at the grass-roots level and also build program support. Local draft boards ("little groups of neighbors," as they were sometimes called) had a vital role during the Vietnam War years in determining, when only a portion of eligible males were required to meet military needs, who got drafted and who did not. Many of those drafted wound up in Vietnam. The compulsory draft and draft boards were later eliminated, although eligible males are still required to register with the Selective Service System.