Centuriate assembly
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The centuriate assembly was a popular assembly of ancient Rome. In the Roman Republic, its main function was electing the consuls, praetors, and censors. It was made up of 193 centuries which were app
After reforms in the third century BC, the first class of centuries fell from 80 centuries to 70 centuries and the centuria praerogativa was added to guide elections.
The emperor Tiberius, pictured, de facto transferred elections from the comitia centuriata to the senate by having it select the candidates to be presented to the people.
The ballot laws of the Roman Republic were four laws which introduced the secret ballot to all popular assemblies in the Republic. They were all introduced by tribunes, and consisted of the lex Gabini
Obverse: the head of Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. On the lower left is a ballot urn. Reverse: A personification of Libertas in a chariot, holding the cap (pileus) and staff (vindicta) of freedom. This coin was struck by C Cassius around 126 BC and commemorates the Lex Cassia tabellaria of 137 BC, which mandated the use of the secret ballot for all trials in the popular assemblies with the exception of treason cases.
A 63 BCE coin depicting a Roman casting a ballot