Now I'm thoroughly confused.
I'm trying to figure out how the election process worked in more historic times, say, after 200BCE. The so called Conflict of the Orders is long over (almost a century after the Lex Hortensia).
So the Comitia Centuriata assembles on election day and there are, say, 3 Patrician and 3 Plebeian candidates for the Consulship. How does the voting process go?
The Centuries vote one after the other, but how are the votes tallied? Do we get one name per one Century, so that the candidates that got the most Centuries get elected? And if that's the case, what happens if both leading candidates are Patricians? (there are no problems if both are Plebeians, right?)