Raviv Drucker Questions Election Bribery Report, Warns of Undermining Results
Translated & summarized from Maariv by baba
Journalist Raviv Drucker criticized a Channel 11 report by Ayla Hasson alleging election bribery in the Arab community, questioning anonymous witnesses' credibility. Drucker presented evidence contradicting a witness's claim of a 95% turnout, stating his own investigation found much lower figures. He suggested the report aimed to delegitimize election results and urged Channel 11 to vet its sources.
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- Raviv Drucker questioned the credibility of an Ayla Hasson report alleging election bribery.
- Drucker cited evidence contradicting a witness's claim of 95% voter turnout.
- He suggested the report was intended to delegitimize election results.
- Anonymous witnesses in Hasson's report had distorted voices and obscured faces.
- Drucker urged Channel 11 to investigate the anonymous witnesses' backgrounds.
Journalist Raviv Drucker on Thursday criticized a Channel 11 report by Ayla Hasson alleging bribery in the Arab community during recent elections, questioning the credibility of anonymous witnesses and warning of attempts to delegitimize the election results. Drucker, in his program "Zoremet Bchira" on Channel 13, suggested the report was intended to pave the way for challenging the election outcome on January 6th.
Drucker highlighted that Hasson's report featured testimonies from individuals whose faces were obscured and voices distorted, yet they spoke Hebrew. He questioned their identities and affiliations, noting that the right-wing had previously claimed to send observers to Arab community polling stations. Drucker presented a segment where a witness claimed a polling station saw a jump in voter turnout from 40% in previous elections to 95% in the current ones. However, Drucker stated his own investigation, with "Moez the Little," found only one polling station in the entire Arab community, in Beer al-Dajaj, reached 95% turnout, with previous turnouts in that village being 54% and 62%.
He further questioned why these witnesses, some of whom allegedly received money to monitor elections, did not report irregularities to the election committee immediately. Drucker also addressed another testimony in Hasson's report about an alleged bribery attempt, where an Arab individual supposedly offered a voter money to vote for the Joint List and provide photographic proof. The witness claimed the offer involved a package of 50 shekel bills totaling several thousand shekels, with a cash payment of 400 shekels promised upon proof of voting, and an increased offer of 800 shekels if another person joined the deal.
Drucker dismissed the bribery account as "stupid" and suggested it resembled reports from the "Ad Kan" movement, whose credibility he deemed problematic. He urged Channel 11 to thoroughly investigate the anonymous witnesses presented by Hasson, implying they were used to prepare the ground for undermining the election results.
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