[honeychile]

When we cleaning out an old storage locker (when I was an active), we found the old Blackball box. It didn't look much like that one.

The reason why there's more than one black ball is that, the member has to select a ball, and put it into the voting section of the box. There were an equal number of black and white balls, so that no one would know how the vote was going until whoever counted the votes did so. Obviously, we didn't use it then, and hadn't for years.

But I can remember as we tried to decide what to do with it - keep it as a relic? Throw it away? We finally ended up smashing and burning it.


ETA: I know about the blackball system from my one year in a masonic organization, most definitively not from Alpha Delta Pi!!