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and formal prosecution of Pheidias was made in the assembly. Embezzlement, indeed, was not proven, for the gold of the statue, from the very start, had been so wrought upon and cast about it by Pheidias, at the wise suggestion of Pericles, that it could all be taken off and weighed, and this is what Pericles actually ordered the accusers of Pheidias to do at this time.

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Pericles*.html

By contrast, mail-in vote counting laws adopted by Pensilvania and Georgia legislatures during this election cycle were prone to generate conspiracy theories in a close contest. Florida took care of the problem after the year 2000 recount controversy.