Elections c’tee chair okays ballots that are dirty, have been scribbled on

By Sue Surkes

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1 November 2022, 9:17 pm

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Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel's environment reporter

Chair of the Central Elections Committee Isaac Amit, center, at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 15, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Central Election Committee chairman rules that ballot slips that have small holes, are dirty, or have been drawn or scribbled on should be still counted, following various complaints about imperfect ballot papers.

The same applies to slips that have been printed off-center.

Justice Isaac Amit writes that the rule is to allow every voter’s ballot to be counted in the result unless it absolutely cannot be accepted as a ballot.