For me, I had these three black plastic figures of cavemen, back when I was six years old. I think those were actually made in East Germany. Because of what was going on in the world around me at the time, I used to play with them acting out what I thought a democratic election was like.
Which basically was this: there was only one candidate for president, the caveman guy with a big club. There was another guy I called "minister of elections" who stood guard over the ballot box with a spear. And the voter was this hairy caveman with a rock, who had to cast his ballot for the only candidate, or my "minister of elections" would poke him with a spear. My parents laughed their butts off when they heard my explanation for what I was doing with my caveman figures that day.
Come to think of it, I had it pretty accurate to how it works in reality, didn't I
