Combating Voter Suppression

18 October 2019
Israel Elections Ballot Box - Photo by the Heinrich Böll Foundation Israel

During the April elections, the Likud party hired a private company to put cameras in the polling stations in Arab Israeli polling stations, which it boasted reduced Arab turnout. The plan to once again install cameras for the second round of 2019 elections was challenged by NIF grantees Zazim — Community Action and Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, who successfully petitioned Central Elections Committee Chairman Judge Hanan Melcer to prohibit cameras.