According to all the online dictionaries, the word Suffrage comes "from the Latin suffragium, meaning 'voting tablet', and figuratively "right to vote", and originally a term for the pastern bone used to cast votes."
I don't recall ever seeing a horse's ankle bone in a voting booth, so that was obviously before my time. But I can't find any other reference to a pastern being used to cast votes, besides these definitions. When, where and how did that work?
I don't recall ever seeing a horse's ankle bone in a voting booth, so that was obviously before my time. But I can't find any other reference to a pastern being used to cast votes, besides these definitions. When, where and how did that work?