There may be fraud in Kadima's elections
I thought it might be possible, and now, here's some news on what's being spoken about:
(IsraelNN.com) As investigations into the Kadima primary elections continue, polling irregularities have been found in 71 of 115 polling stations. While a Kadima internal court judge has upheld the election results, the possibility of a recount, or even a new primary, has been left open. Meanwhile, a Knesset Member appealing the results of the primary said that had Kadima candidate and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz been aware of the extent of the polling irregularities, he would have appealed the results on the night of the vote.Now if this makes any sense, it means that Livni and her cronies have cheated very badly, and don't deserve to run the government.
A group of Mofaz supporters, led by Kadima MK Ze’ev Elkin, has been investigating a number of voting irregularities that they say casts serious doubt on the results. Among their findings is the troubling fact that the total number of votes that were cast is greater than the number of voters who are registered as having arrived to the polls.
“The number of ballots with a question mark on them is around 300,” said Elkin. He confirmed that irregularities have been uncovered in a majority of the 115 polling stations, where either there were ballots cast that were not counted, or where the number of ballots counted exceeded the number of people who voted.
“Had [Mofaz] known of the magnitude of the discrepancies, he would have certainly appealed,” Elkin added.
On the night of the elections, lawyers for Mofaz requested the Central Election Committee to postpone announcement of the results pending a recount, given the tiny margin of victory and the disqualification of an entire voting station in the town of Rahat. In that station, 430 ballots were discarded, bringing Livni’s 431-vote down to a possible margin of just one vote.
Central Election Committee judge Dan Arbel ruled against the appeal, arguing that since Livni’s margin of victory was one vote larger than the number of votes disqualified in Rahat, she would have won the election by one vote even if all the Rahat votes were for Mofaz. Arbel said that had the number of disputed votes been even one vote higher, he would have suspended the election results.
With the new information found on polling irregularities, the total number of disputed votes is over 700, and Mofaz’s supporters are holding Arbel to his word.
Labels: Israel, Knesset, political corruption
