Tabella, a billet or tablet, with which each citizen and judex voted in the comitia and courts of justice. In the comitia, if the business was the passing of a law, each citizen was provided with two tabellae, one inscribed V.R. I vote for te law," the other inscribed A. "I am te old law." If the business was the election of a magistrate, each citizen was supplied with only one tablet, in which the names of the candidates were written, or the initials of their names; the voter then placed a mark against the one for whom he voted, whence puncta are spoken of in the sense of votes." &mdash Smith; 1873