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Elections Committee Tells High Court It Recommended 159 Nursing Home Ballot Boxes

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Courtroom-sketch editorial illustration of accessible voting at a care facility: an elderly woman with glasses sits in a wheelchair at the centre of the frame in a patterned wrap, smiling as she raises a folded blue ballot envelope in her right hand, while a man in a dark polo shirt stands at the right gripping the wheelchair handles behind her; a blue cardboard voting booth carrying the Israeli flag and the state menorah emblem rises behind them, a blue ballot box with a voting slip on top sits

The Central Elections Committee told the High Court on Monday that its professional staff recommended placing ballot boxes in 159 of the 290 nursing homes and assisted living facilities surveyed, those that agreed to the conditions and were found suitable. The committee said 127 of them met accessibility requirements, and that mobility-limited voters will be able to cast ballots there if the committee plenum approves. It added that the accessibility review of the remaining recommended homes has not been completed. The update came on the deadline the court set on August 11, after the Knesset declined to mandate the arrangement in the elections law ahead of the October 27 election.

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