The director of the Election Commission, Orly Adas, spoke this morning (Wednesday) with Golan Yokfaz, Anat Davidov, Nissim Mash’al and Barak Ravid on a special program on 103FM. She updated that The duplicates, which the committee estimates include “450,000 envelopes.”
Adas added in an optimistic tone that “in terms of election day, we were all very pleasantly surprised. We expected a difficult election day and overall it went over for the best. There was even a feeling that he was a bit sleepy, so for us it was great with all the big challenges facing the system.”
She added that although “we hear other voices this morning, it does not matter that for us we are prepared for any script. The whole process that takes place here in the Knesset is done in the most open, visible and transparent way.”
When asked how they prove to the parties that the election process was done fairly, and what happens if a party claims irregularities, she replied: “We have eight days, until next Wednesday when we publish the official results. Exactly eight days for this purpose – to conduct various tests on all materials The vote that came and the referrals that come to us, this is what is done during all weekdays, we will check all these things so that anyone who thinks that the results we published do not match what he thinks will be required to bring the figure and we will check. “
She went on to say, “Whoever enters our election committee website will see a screen showing two data, on the right the typing done in the regional computer committees, and on the left the original file scanned from the polling committee protocol as signed by factional and secretary factions.”
“It should be remembered that we documented the count from almost all polling stations across the country, an election purity inspector sat and filmed the process if there were any allegations, these materials will be used as evidence and there are all the voting materials. This is the advantage of a manual election method.”
Regarding the turnout, she noted that she was disappointed with the decline at first, but after thinking, she drew a different conclusion: “I expressed disappointment yesterday, because I estimated that the turnout did not fall below 70%. However, during the night I had time to think, among other things. There were many countries that conducted elections in the last year in the shadow of the corona, and in some countries it was conducted under a completely different election method than ours – by mail, online and by phone – so it is irrelevant.But in countries like ours, manually, studies showed a 20% drop “The vote so that our rate has dropped in a low way compared to what has happened in the world. This is as a result of all the moves we have taken.”