Gambia starts counting marble votes in first post-Jammeh presidential election

The Observer Uganda

Gambia starts counting marble votes in first post-Jammeh presidential election

Election officials started counting marble votes Saturday in Gambia after the polls closed in the country's first presidential election in decades that did not include former dictator Yahya Jammeh, a milestone seen as a test of democracy in the West African country.Long lines of Gambians came to vote to exercise their democratic rights as demands for justice in the post-Jammeh era rise. Nearly 1 million registered voters were expected to drop ma…