Yes, but the citizens were only subset of population and the city was smaller then current states.

It is quite possible that it would not scale to larger population and general voting rights.

Sure, I was just addressing my parent comment's proposal and providing more context.

I don't really care for it, although I will have to say it would probably work better in the case of opaque public bodies very few people vote for elections in (e.g. a local American school board)