The Central Elections Committee declared that claims circulating regarding Likud representatives in polling booths across the country illegally tracking voters using an app were false after B'Yachad issued a formal complaint shortly after Election Day kicked off.
“An isolated report was received concerning photography at a polling station in Moshav Yarhiv. The polling station committee member who took the photographs understood her mistake after the guidelines were explained to her and stopped taking pictures," the CEC stated.
“The committee reiterates that party representatives at polling stations are prohibited from providing their parties with information about whether an individual has arrived at a polling station or cast a ballot, including through apps. These guidelines are binding on all parties and their representatives.”
The Likud party denied any wrongdoing, stating that the party has set up booths outside of polling stations and that voters can volunteer the relevant information.
"This has nothing to do with the polling station ‘representatives,’ to whom voters are required to identify themselves,” the party stated.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. Tuesday at 12,018 polling stations for the country’s 7,331,981 eligible voters, with 36 lists competing for the Knesset’s 120 seats. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition is assured of a majority, and Netanyahu will remain caretaker prime minister until a new government is sworn in, whatever the outcome.