of electoral classes was reformed, and in 1906 some minor changes were introduced to streamline the electoral process. There was never a fundamental change. Election procedures Eligibility to vote Every Prussian male who had reached the age of 25 and had lived in a Prussian municipality for at least six months was eligible to vote. He was not allowed to have lost his civil rights through a legal judgment or to be receiving public assistance for the poor. Under paragraph 49 of the Reich Military Act of 1874 (), active military personnel, with the exception of military officers, were excluded from the right to vote both in the federal states and for the Reichstag. The three classes Those eligible to vote were divided into three classes based on the revenue from direct state taxes (class tax or classified income tax, property tax and business tax). Within each district, the eligible voters who paid the most taxes fell into the first class. The top taxpaying eligible voters were assigned to this class until one third of the total tax revenue was reached. Then those who paid the most taxes among the remaining eligible voters were put into the second class until one-third of the total tax revenue was again reached. All remaining eligible voters – who also contributed one-third of total taxes – formed the third class. If the tax paid by a voter placed him partially in the first and partially the second class, he was allocated to the first. The tax amount of the first class would then exceed one third of the total taxes, with the result that the amount attributable to the second and third classes was recalculated by dividing the remaining amount equally between those two classes. Eligible voters elected from 3 to 6 electors in their primary district. Each district provided one elector for each 250 inhabitants according to the latest census. A primary electoral district thus had a minimum of 750 and a maximum of 1,749 inhabitants. In municipalities with several primary election districts it was possible that after the class allocation procedure there were no eligible voters at all in the first or even in the first and second classes. In such cases, the allocation was carried out again at the level of the individual electoral district. In 1908, in 2,214 of 29,028 primary election districts, the first class consisted of only one