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Ballot Box

Ballot Box
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Title
Ballot Box
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Collection
Te Papa Collections Online
Description

This hexagonal wooden box was one of two used to conscript men into the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I. For the ballot, numbered wooden marbles were tumbled in the revolving box. Once the balls were sufficiently scrambled, they were extracted by sliding open a rectangular lockable lid. Numbers Numbers drawn from the first ballot box corresponded to the sequence in which drawers were taken from filing cabinets. Numbers drawn from the second ballot box corresponded to the ...

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Date created
1916
URL
https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/66765
Related subjects
War / Military service / wood / ballot boxes / New Zealand

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