Marbles Used For Voting

A voter deposits their first voting marble into the opening that is marked with their first choice.

Marbles used for voting.

A white marble signifies yea a positive or affirmative vote. The gambia has a unique method of voting for their president instead of ballot papers voters use marbles. When marbles stop moving the voter deposits their second voting marble into the opening marked with their second choice. It turns out that it will be the last time the west african country employs its unique voting method of using marbles.

Wooden ballot box with marbles the term ballot is derived from the italian ballotta meaning little ball this ballot box was not used in a u s. The elections commission chief alieu momar njai said gambia will switch to. Just one no vote could defeat a project. As glass became more expensive crockery or bennington style marbles took their place.

The glass marbles represent ballot papers and there are no ballot boxes but ballot drums. Dropping a white marble yes or a black marble no gave everyone a turn to secretly vote for admission into a club. In earlier years ballot marbles were made of glass. Describes a number of white and black marbles popularly used for voting at board meeting social clubs and professional society meetings.

It was used by members of the association of the oldest inhabitants of washington d c a social club. The upcoming film selma focuses on mlk and protests leading up to the voting rights act of 1965 and the struggles many african americans endured on their way to the polls including being. So they used a blackball box instead of paper ballots. Many decisions had to be almost unanimous.

Ron johnson said november s election is for all the marbles with the republican majority in the senate and the future makeup of the supreme court at stake. Each person was given a random number of black and. One set of voting marbles of a larger size are used for the voting.