What are you reading?

I'm still reading that book about Ancient Rome.

I read about how they did elections in the early republic. I guess they'd basically separate people into groups called "centuries" (which maybe used to have 100 people each at some point but that quickly became untrue). Each one got one vote, which was equal to the majority for the group, kinda like how the Electoral College works in the US for presidential elections.

But what they did was when they were doing the census every five years, they'd split people up by wealth. So there were different groups based off wealth. The high-wealth groups had fewer people in them, so the people in those groups had their vote counted "more". Furthermore, the high-wealth groups always voted first, and voting was done to a simple majority, so once 51% voted "yes" or "no", nobody else voted. As a result, the poorest people who voted last (and had their vote diluted the most) often never even had a chance to vote, since the wealthy people at the top had already decisively voted one way or another.

Also all voting had to be done in-person, there were no absentee votes at all. All elections were in Rome so if you lived outside the city you'd have to travel there to vote. Except them you might not even be able to vote because a bunch of people ahead of you voted "yes" or "no" and now your vote doesn't matter and you wasted days traveling for nothing lol.

Kinda based I guess. Neat to learn about too.