censors (these being at this game the groom-porters) is
advertised by the secretary who brings him in, and the electors
disputing are bound to acquiesce in his sentence. For which cause
it is that the censors do not ballot at the urns; the signory
also abstains, lest it should deform the house: wherefore the
blanks in the side urns are by so many the fewer. And so much for
the lot, which is of the greater art but less consequence,
because it concerns proposition only: but all (except the
tribunes and the judges, which being but assistants have no
suffrage) are to ballot at the result, to which I now come.

The four orders of electors having perfected their lists, the
face of the house is changed: for the urns are taken away, and
every senator and magistrate is seated in his proper place,
saving the electors, who, having given their suffrages already,
may not stir out of their chambers till the house have given
theirs, and the rest of the ballot be performed; which follows in
this manner:

The four lists being presented by the secretaries of each
council of electors to the signory, are first read, according to
their order, to the house, with an audible voice; and then the
competitors are put to the ballot or suffrage of the whole Senate
in this manner: A, A named to be strategus in the first order,
whereupon eight ballotins, or pages, such as are expressed by the
figures f, f, take eight of the boxes represented, though rudely,
by the figures g, g, and go four on the one and four on the other
side of the house, that is, one to every bench, signifying "A, A
named to be the strategus in the first order.." and every
magistrate or senator (beginning by the strategus and the orator