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So much for relying on my memory. Reference is Livy 9.38.15. The election process was made in three stages. First was an election in one of the comiita, depending on the office, then for consules another election by curia granted imperium and auspicium. The third stage was drawing lots for provinciae. In 310 L. Papirius was holding an election among the curiae, and called it short when curia Faucia was drawn as the first to vote. Earlier they had also voted first for the consuls who were defeated in the Caudine Forks.

Also I earlier misspoke about the voting in the comitia centuriata. The kinds of centuries voted in a set pattern as I said earlier, but lots would be drawn among the equestrian centuries to see which among them voted first, and then among the other centuries. The centuries for engineers, musicians, and a couple others I think, existed only in certain periods. The engineers had one century separate from all others, voting after the equestrians, the other extra centuries after all other centuries. I don't think there was an engineer century in Caesar's time, as the army by then did not have such units. The Roman proletariat was used in the navy, and sometimes in the army during the Punic Wars, before Marius' time. The Romans were not enlisting for the navy by the end of the second century. So I am not sure when the proletariat had its own century introduced or if disbanded before Caesar's time.