{"id":16419,"date":"2012-11-06T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16419"},"modified":"2012-11-06T20:26:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:26:53","slug":"what-happens-if-gambia-loses-its-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16419\/what-happens-if-gambia-loses-its-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If Gambia Loses Its Marbles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the voting returns remain close, and there&#8217;s a recount of paper ballots <a href=\"http:\/\/thecable.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2012\/11\/06\/foreign_election_officials_amazed_by_trust_based_us_voting_system \" target=\"_blank\">Foreign Policy<\/a> reports that it could be worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In The Gambia, a country in West Africa, each voter is given exactly one marble, which they place in one of the large marble collecting jars that are set up for each candidate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The polls workers are listening because when the marble goes into the jar, there&#8217;s a ding. And if there are two dings, maybe somebody came in with extra marbles in their pocket, so they call the police,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how Gambians do a recount with the marble-based voting system, McCormick said, &#8220;I have no idea.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the voting returns remain close, and there&#8217;s a recount of paper ballots Foreign Policy reports that it could be worse: In The Gambia, a country in West Africa, each voter is given exactly one marble, which they place in one of the large marble collecting jars that are set up for each candidate. &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,2026,3928,3929],"class_list":["post-16419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-election","tag-gambia","tag-recount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16422,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16419\/revisions\/16422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}