At Rome the system was VERY complicated and even for Greece, it’s hard to generalize. But this morning, I reminded myself how voting worked in other Greek states and in Rome. If I’m honest – and we’ve already established that I may not be – the only ancient voting system I know about off the top of my head is the Athenian one.
But I can assure you that I remain fully committed to implementing my original plan in the long term and when the conditions are right for the country.īecause it’s May 7th, 2015, I’m going to talk about Greek and Roman elections instead.
I made a pledge, I did not stick to it, and for that I am sorry. I had said that this post would be about Greek rhetorical attacks on the audience. In that spirit, I am going to break a promise which I made in my last post. The outcome is far from certain and the likely need for parties to compromise with each other in order to form a workable government means that a few manifesto pledges will doubtless be broken. (I am tempted to encourage you to so by invoking the ghosts of Cleisthenes, the protesters of Peterloo, Emmeline Pankhurst and Martin Luther King – to name but a few). Today is the day that those of us who are registered and eligible to vote in the UK get to stick a cross next to a name.
