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Gambians Vote With MarblesPosted on Sep 22, 2006
Check out the Gambian voting system. It’s enviably simple: “Voters enter a booth and pop a clear glass marble into one of three drums representing the candidates.” The marble hits a bell on its way down, preventing people from voting more than once. No hanging chads, no hacking, just a satisfying plunk when your vote goes in. Are we advocating marbles? No, but a paper trail would be good.
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By Broiler, September 24, 2006 at 11:02 pm #
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Wow! We could use this system in the US but we’ve
Wait for it…..................................
Lost our marbles!
Look, what were you expecting? Trashing the Gambians
Report thisfor their high illiteracy rate? You could do worse than
marbles and bells. It would take some doing but
you could do worse.