Election Committee to Allow Poll Workers to Report Voter Numbers
Translated & summarized from i24NEWS by baba
Twelve days before the elections, Israel will establish accessible polling stations in about 90 welfare facilities nationwide. The Central Elections Committee approved a Likud request to allow poll workers to report voter counts via mobile phones, but not voter identities. These stations will serve vulnerable populations including victims of violence and individuals with disabilities.
The story in 5 lines · by baba
- Accessible polling stations will be set up in 90 Israeli welfare facilities.
- Poll workers will be allowed to report voter numbers, but not identities.
- The decision was made by Elections Committee Chairman Judge Noam Sohlberg.
- The Likud party requested the change regarding mobile phone use by poll workers.
- Stations will serve victims of violence, people with disabilities, and addiction patients.
Twelve days before the upcoming elections, Israel's Central Elections Committee and the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security announced that accessible polling stations will be set up in approximately 90 welfare facilities across the country. These stations will serve eligible voters in shelters for victims of violence, institutions for people with disabilities, and therapeutic communities for addiction.
In response to a request from the Likud party, the acting director-general of the Elections Committee, Dean Livneh, approved allowing poll workers to bring mobile phones into polling stations. They will be permitted to report the number of voters, but not their identities. This decision was made by the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Sohlberg.
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