How did the first democracy die?

980.989 - 1001.511 Lawrence Sammons II

And the day of the vote, you would write the name of the person you wanted to ostracize on a broken piece of pottery. That pottery is called an ostracon. So that's what gives ostracism its name. And so you wrote the name of the person you wanted ostracized, you know, Professor Sammons. And then you turn that in. And if 6,000 people voted, then whoever got the most votes had to go. No matter what.