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This is cool, but why didn't they use 5 chests with tickets on them, drawing names round-robin from the chests?
by spenczar5 7y ago
This is cool, but why didn't they use 5 chests with tickets on them, drawing names round-robin from the chests?
- gumby 7y agoProbably for technological reasons: they didn't use paper so the tokens had two problems: 1 - they were non-uniform so could in theory be biased and 2 - typically the tokens were made of dried clay, so could easily fracture. For casting votes potshards were typically marked by the voter to indicate preference, then discarded.