four-and-twenty competitors you must have four-and-twenty
electors; and whereas the ballot consists of a lot and of a
suffrage, the lot is for no other use than for the designation of
electors; and he that draws a gold ball at the middle urn is an
elector. Now, as to have four-and-twenty competitors proposed,
you must have four-and-twenty electors made, so to have
four-and-twenty electors made by lot, you must have
four-and-twenty gold balls in the middle urn; and these (because
otherwise it would be no lot) mixed with a competent number of
blanks, or silver balls. Wherefore to the four-and-twenty gold
balls cast six-and-twenty silver ones, and those (reckoning the
blanks with the prizes) make fifty balls in the middle urn. This
done (because no man can come to the middle urn that has not
first drawn a gold ball at one of the side urns) and to be sure
that the prizes or gold balls in this urn be all drawn, there
must come to it fifty persons; therefore there must be in each of
the side urns five-and-twenty gold balls, which in both come to
fifty; and to the end that every senator may have his lot, the
gold balls in the side urns are to be made up with blanks equal
to the number of the ballotants at either urn; for example, the
house consisting of 300 senators, there must be in each of the
side urns 125 blanks and twenty-five prizes, which come in both
the side urns to 300 balls. This is the whole mystery of
preparing the urns, which the censors having skill to do
accordingly, the rest of the ballot, whether the parties
balloting understand it or not must of necessary consequence come
right; and they can neither be out, nor fall into any confusion
in the exercise of this art.

But the ballot, as I said, is of two parts, lot and suffrage,