Your Vote counts ?

Whenever someone talks about voting I remember:

In the entire 600 year history of the Roman Republic there is not one instance where a candidate that was favored by the Plebes class (and disfavored by the Patrician class) defeated a candidate that was favored by the Patrician class.  Not once.

Roman citizens were divided into two classes: The Patricians and The Plebes.  The Patricians were the wealthy ruling class.   All Roman citizens got to vote on Senate candidates, but the voting order was rigidly proscribed by class.  The Patricians class voted first.  Even though the voting was secret ballot and the rules were strictly observed, there was never a case where a candidate favored by the Plebes class defeated a candidate favored by the Patrician class.

Curious fact.



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William Schaeffer