Arad Mayor Details Vote-Buying Scheme in Arab Community
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Arad Mayor Yair Maayan described a vote-buying scheme in the Arab community involving cash and fuel cards for families. He stated this practice has occurred in past elections but was unusually widespread in the recent elections. Party representatives allegedly make consolidated deals with family heads based on the number of voters.
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- Arad Mayor Yair Maayan detailed a vote-buying scheme in the Arab community.
- The alleged scheme involves distributing cash envelopes and pre-loaded fuel cards to families.
- Maayan stated that party representatives negotiate deals with family heads based on voter numbers.
- He claimed the practice is not new but was unusually widespread in the recent elections.
- The mayor described the method as a known tactic recurring in Arab sector elections.
Yair Maayan, the Mayor of Arad, has described a long-standing mechanism allegedly used to buy votes within the Arab community, involving the distribution of cash envelopes and pre-loaded fuel cards to families. Speaking on Channel 14, Maayan claimed that party representatives reach agreements with families, providing them with cash or fuel cards based on the number of eligible voters within the household. He stated that this practice is not new and has been employed in previous election cycles. However, Maayan asserted that the scale of this activity was particularly unusual in the most recent elections, with parties "going for broke." He explained that under this alleged system, party representatives negotiate a consolidated deal with the head of a family rather than approaching individual voters. "Party representatives close a deal with a family, transferring payment in cash or magnetic fuel cards according to the number of voters in the family," he said. Maayan added that "the method of fuel vouchers and envelopes with money is a known method that recurs in every election in the Arab sector."
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