Nearly a month after elections, recordings published by Army Radio allege voting booth fraud by Shas activists attempting to disqualify voting slips for the rival Yachad party.
Yachad, founded by former Shas leader Eli Yishai, fell some 12,000 votes shy of being able to cross the electoral threshold of 3.25% of votes and get into the Knesset in voting on March 17.
In one recording, an alleged Shas activist who was supposed to act as a poll observer, is heard telling a colleague how to make sure the Yachad votes don’t count.
“Tell everyone who votes to grab the [Yachad] slips. Put them in their pockets and in their place put Shas slips. You can draw on them, do a little scribble — which will disqualify them,” the activist is heard saying.
A second recording features other activists giving similar instructions.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews line up to vote in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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