Holon polling station security guard accidentally fires gun; no one hurt

Central Elections Committee director general Orly Ades gives an update on election-day problems.

She tells reporters at the committee’s headquarters in Jerusalem that a security guard at a polling station in the central Israeli city of Holon accidentally discharged his gun, but that nobody was hurt and police are investigating.

Committee chairman and Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer instructed police to probe suspicions raised over the past two hours that the voting slips of a particular party have been marked up, disqualifying the ballot slips, and that slips for a number of parties have disappeared. The parties are not identified in the statement. Depending on the extent of the marking of the slips, the committee will consider whether to regard the slips as acceptable despite the markings.