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ElectionJerusalemThursday 22 October 2026

Supreme Court bars party observers from sending live voter counts

Polling-station members may not digitally tally who has voted and pass it to parties in real time.

Aerial view of the Supreme Court and government district.
The Supreme Court and the Knesset from the air, 2009. Photo: israeltourism, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

The Supreme Court accepted a petition and barred polling-committee members and party observers from using digital tools to count how many people have voted at a station and pass that to their parties during election day.

The ban covers both the digital tally and real-time transmission.

Likud and Religious Zionism had said they would place nearly 2,000 observers at polling stations in Arab communities, citing unproven fraud claims.

  • ~2,000observers Likud and RZP planned for Arab polling stations

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