Lost in Translation?

I recently learned that the verb "to vote" in Bambara is kalafili. I have been told that kalafili is also the verb used in phrases like "to randomly select a card," and "to roll the dice." I wonder how much this tells me about the psyche of the average Malian voter. Is voting seen as a random selection, and that the act of voting has no real impact on the outcome but is rather simply the impetus for an outcome to occur? Is it just like when someone rolls the dice and they normally don't have any expectations of influencing the outcome but roll it just so that there is an outcome? Hmmmm.... I'll need to do some asking around.