The small wooden ballot box has a handle and two compartments. There is a sliding wooden lid with a small hole in the top and two finger grips to slide the lid back and forth. Inside of the box was a smaller plastic container which contained marble voting balls both black and white. After the founders' meeting, it was decreed that every new member must be nominated by two active members, his name read before the group and voted on at the next business meeting. A single black marble in the voting box kept the nominee out. It was presumed that the prospective member knew nothing of his nomination, so that the insult of being rejected would not be known by him. If black-balled, the nomination blank was destroyed to remove any record of the outcome of the election.