Outgoing Joint List and incoming Hadash-Ta’al MK Aida Touma-Sliman is demanding that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit order an investigation into the Likud party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after party officials placed hidden cameras in dozens of polling stations in Arab towns on Election Day.
Likud admitted that it was behind the 1,200 or so cameras and other recording devices, which party officials claimed were in place to counter widespread voter fraud.
“This is an unprecedented move by Netanyahu of direct and deliberate incitement, this time with deeds and not only with words,” Touma-Sliman tells Mandleblit in a letter.
She also asks that Mandelblit order the video footage recorded by Likud activists be turned over to police. Touma-Sliman says that allowing activists to keep the illicitly recorded footage is “problematic” and a violation of privacy.
On Election Day, Melcer issued a directive prohibiting any photographing inside polling stations, “except in the case of a special event,” in which case audio recording was allowed.
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