The peculiar Greek method of voting, for some 2.500 years, consisted of having an urn to represent each candidate. The voter tossed in a white pebble if he wished to vote for the candidate and a black one if he wished to vote against him. There are now 743 Lords Spiritual and Temporal on the roll of the House of , Lords. *
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Southland Times, Issue 20172, 7 May 1927, Page 17 (Supplement)
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