In the United States and in many other countries, citizens have to register to vote "To <span>make sure people vote only once," since otherwise it would be very hard to track who has already voted. </span>
For centuries the Forum was the center of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city's great men.