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Election Committee Halts Real-Time Vote Count Reporting by UTJ
On Tuesday, Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg issued an interim order prohibiting the United Torah Judaism party and its polling station representatives from reporting voter numbers in real time.
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What happened
- 01Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Sohlberg barred United Torah Judaism from reporting real-time voter numbers on Tuesday.
- 02The interim order followed an urgent petition filed by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel.
- 03The petition alleged that United Torah Judaism was violating a High Court of Justice ruling on voter data transfer.
- 04A report by journalist Yoeli Barim revealed that United Torah Judaism poll workers were instructed to track and report voter turnout to the Degel HaTorah faction.
- 05The Supreme Court had previously banned the transfer of voter identification data and expanded it to include numerical turnout data.
- 06Justice Sohlberg ordered United Torah Judaism to submit its response to the petition by Tuesday afternoon.
The decision followed an urgent petition filed by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel. The petition alleged that the party was violating a High Court of Justice ruling that restricts the transfer of voter data from polling stations to political parties. According to a report by journalist Yoeli Barim, United Torah Judaism poll workers had received a tracking form instructing them to record the times voters cast ballots and report the numbers to the Degel HaTorah faction's system.
This legal dispute follows a previous Supreme Court ruling that banned the transfer of voter identification data, which was later expanded to prohibit the digital transfer of numerical turnout data. Justice Sohlberg ordered United Torah Judaism to submit its response to the petition by Tuesday afternoon.
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