Election Committee Reportedly Allows Anonymous Voter Counts at Polling Stations

The Central Elections Committee has reportedly clarified that faction representatives serving as polling-station committee members or observers may count voters anonymously and transmit aggregate turnout totals using digital tools. Acting committee director Dean Livne addressed the distinction in a reply to Likud representative Ilan Bumbach, who sought to separate statistical monitoring from recording voters’ identities. The proposal described in the report excludes photography, recordings, access to polling-station documents and linking a vote to an identifiable person. Restrictions on mobile-phone use inside polling rooms and the prohibition on collecting information that directly or indirectly identifies voters remain in force.