The Curia

[Tiberius Claudius Marcellus]

Tiberius Claudius Marcellus stands and coughs, garnering the attention of his fellow senatores

"Fellow senators, honored men and sons of Roma, I must voice that the ballot used for this series of elections and legislation proposals is most inaccurate, and is therefore ashambles. To use it would make a mockery of the democratic system and would cause too much confusion amongst eligible voters, thus leading to disenfranchisement. I therefore move that we halt all voting immediately, rendering any cast null and void, and convene an emergency session of the Senate, to draft a more perfect ballot. Once said ballot is re-written, all eligible parties shall be allowed to cast their votes anew to be tallied for counting.

"Should our noble body not deem it fit to make its processes and procedures worthy of the Res Publica, then I shall abstain on voting this session in protest of the lack of attention to detail and laziness on the part of those senatores whose responsibility it was to create our ballots."