Written Ballot, Secret Ballot and the iu
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Feig Vishnia, Rachel
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Article
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2008
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Akademie Verlag
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German
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## Abstract Cicero, who is our main source for the __leges tabellariae (De legibus__ 3.3339), which were gradually introduced into all comitial voting between 139107 BCE, claims that the written ballot, by allowing the voters to hide their choice, decreased the power of the ruling elite, but prov