Allegations of Vote Buying and Voter Tracking in Israel’s Elections

I just want you to process everything for me first, okay?

No problem, but why do you want us to distort your voice?

At my polling station, they filmed me and yelled at me. I don't want

it to be me.

Are you afraid?

A little, yes.

What threatened you there?

They yelled at me, cursed at me, threatened me,

how can you not find out what might happen?

The Knesset elections may have been conducted

properly throughout the country, but according to

the testimonies received by Now 14's investigative desk,

at the organization Ad Kan,

on October 27, polling-place terror was underway.

We hope we'll have a new country now.

On October 27, the State of Israel,

uh, was subjected

to, uh, foreign activity that changed

all the election results through

a well-oiled mechanism of election bribery that had

never happened in the history of the State of Israel.

On election day, we at the organization

begin receiving

uh, testimonies and videos

and reports that something, uh, is going on,

something very, uh, problematic and suspicious,

uh, across the board at all the polling stations, uh, in the

Arab sector.

An earthquake.

An event is happening here

that I doubt has any parallel

in other Western democracies.

A quick look at the Election Commission's website shows a jump

in voter turnout among Arab citizens.

Let's do some simple math. In their best election,

in the last 20 years, turnout reached 64 percent.

You're talking about an additional 20 percent, about 83 or 84 percent.

Those 20 percent aren't, they aren't natural.

Absolutely not.

For example, at polling station number 59,

out of 201 voters in 2022,

the number more than doubles, reaching 573.

At polling station number 12, instead of 176

voters, uh, we reach 480

and seven voters. At House 7, instead of 250, 588.

588.

You see polling stations with insane turnout

This is a widespread event across all polling stations

in the Arab sector. There's a team behind this that sat

down and mapped all the polling stations

Many months earlier,

they appointed people to be at every polling station,

provided them with a budget,

ensured they had cash flow, and got them

fuel cards, in the range of four hundred, five hundred, sometimes

three hundred shekels per ballot. Multiply that

by the number of voters who turned up,

and it comes to tens of millions, perhaps

more if we take the whole operation into account.

It seems the increase in voter turnout didn’t come out of nowhere.

A thorough effort was made here, over a long period.

A campaign took place just three months before the election,

led by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt against

Netanyahu. They want to bring Netanyahu down. Why?

Because they want to bring down the right. Why? Because they want

a left-wing government.

An isolated incident

of a polling station here and there, of, uh, various violations, uh, legal

and otherwise. It can happen, it’s all fine.

It needs to be investigated case by case,

but you understand there was a system here.

This isn’t something done in a casual way, "hey,

hey," twenty- four hours before an election,

No problem, bro. I got you three hundred thousand shekels, a million shekels.

Go on, go hand it out. No, no, no.

There’s an event here for activists, for sheikhs,

Dividing up the districts,

who’s responsible for which polling stations,

in which villages, in which

places.

There’s an army here getting ready for this.

It didn’t take a day, it didn’t

take a week. Software, an app, an app called Al

Mu’ahada that brings together both the Joint List and Ra’am.

On election day, the activists’ app was number four, and the

main app was number one in downloads.

This isn’t an app that provides information,

It’s a functional app for managing the operation.

This is what the app looks like in Apple’s App Store.

You can see the green ballot-box icon. The Elector was indeed banned

from use, but equality before the law doesn’t apply in Arab society.

I know a committee member who was with me

was an Arab from the same city where I worked, and only he

had the app. Every time the committee…

by ID number, what the guy’s serial number was.

Relatively early in the morning, we already saw that one of the observers,

on behalf of one of the Arab parties, I can't remember if it was

Hadash-Ta’al or Ra’am, but one of the two,

Uh, actually, uh, listened to the serial numbers of the people who came in

and said them

and typed them into her phone. Now, she tried to hide it,

like, typing under the table with

the phone and hiding it and stuff.

Some kind of app that, from a lot, a lot of, uh,

testimony, we understand is being used for monitoring.

And from our—our analysis, we tried to figure out this, this issue

and concluded that it was probably two apps belonging to the

Ra’am party.

When you look at the app download data, you realize something is going on here.

There was just one committee member who kept reporting in the app

about people who—he kept going outside and tal-talking to people

before they went into

the polling station, asking them what their serial number was,

and then reporting it in an app

like that from Ra’am. Everyone, every—he didn't miss a single person.

There's a control system. Who came, who didn't, who received

money, who didn't receive money,

who voted for whom, it all syncs up.

They—because of that, if you noticed, Ahmad Tibi knew exactly how many

seats they'd get as soon as the election ended,

because he knew how many voters had voted

for him.

From the little we can see, from what we're finding out,

we understand that this is an operation

involving anywhere from weeks to many months of

planning

backward.