The right of voting being confined to members of the Communist party, the Government represented by no means one really elected by universal suffrage but rather a dictatorship of the lower classes.
Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
In the Terror the number of those voting averaged only 250.
Naturally, however, as the ideals of the members of the party are the same, the members of the Labour party will be generally found voting together on all important divisions, the chief exception being with regard to free trade or protection.
When the voting for vicepresident began his victory was at once apparent and he was nominated by acclamation.