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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by toubab1020[/i] [br]A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN FUTURE ELECTIONS:ONLY reported in The Daily Observer, Gambia to Dump Ballot Tokens for Ballot Papers July 19, 2017 editor https://observergm.com/gambia-to-dump-ballot-tokens-for-ballot-papers/ In the nearest future, The Gambia will join the rest of the world to use ballot papers instead of ballot tokens and marble during elections. Alieu Momar Njie, chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) disclosed that this plan is already in offing as he speaks at the opening of the GPU’s organised weeklong Civic Education and Election Reporting at Tango’s conference hall on Saturday. He stated that with the new found freedom, The Gambia cannot continue using the same old method of voting “by using the ballot drums.” He admitted that use of ballot drums during the last Presidential and National Assembly Elections, IEC had series of problems as it was not easy to carry them around to drop and collect them from the polling boots. “That’s why we are now planning to move from this old archaic system of using the ballot drums because in some constituency we have 9 candidates and in a polling station physically and practically it is not easy to carry around all these drum into each polling booth. Especially that we have to manufacture over two thousands ballot drums within two weeks just to accommodate the numbers of candidates for the elections;” he lamented by Yunus S. Saliu [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.