Elections committee says is it developing a detailed plan to prevent meddling

The Central Elections Committee says it is devising a detailed plan of action to prevent attempts by foreign countries to meddle in the April 9 Knesset elections, following reports that such attempts are being made by a country that cannot be named by orders from the military censor.

“Together with security bodies, we studied what happened in other countries and we are devising a plan of action,” says a spokesperson for the committee in charge of organizing the election.

Part of those efforts, the spokesperson says, has been a meeting with senior officials in Facebook, the social media site where much of the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections took place.

The committee says that for security reasons it can’t detail what actions have been taken, but says that all bodies involved in the election process have been alerted.

The statement stresses that Israel is less vulnerable to online vote fraud than other countries since the ballots are counted manually.