Posted on 11/08/2022 4:01:48 AM PST by Jaysin
My confidence in the Israeli Electoral Process
As my fellow citizens, non-citizens, dead-citizens, and fake envelopes prepare to vote today in the USA, I would like to explain the Israeli voting process and why I am have confidence in it.
I became an Israeli citizen in 2008 and have voted for Likud/Bibi EVERY single election since my first in 2009 – 8 national election votes in 14 years!
How does it work here?
No absentee ballots – you either vote in person on election day at your assigned polling station or you don’t vote. Outside the country on vacation on election day = too bad for you. The only exception are the diplomatic corps and others outside the country on official business, and active-duty soldiers that have a special voting process, and I believe there is a process for hospitalized patients and nursing home patients to vote. Prisoners are also eligible to vote here.
Upon arrival at your station, you PRESENT YOUR IDENTIFCATION CARD to the poll worker, who then crosses your name off a list, then someone else crosses your name off of their list, and then they both call out your row # to a person with a computer who “logs it in” The poll worker holds on to your ID until voting is completed
Then, you go behind a small curtain with a sectioned box that contains ballots for all of the parties running. You then take the envelope they provided, put in 1 ballot, seal the envelope, come out from behind the curtain and drop the envelope into a box that is in front of all of the poll employees.
Once you’ve voted, they hand you back your ID and you are free to go
Any envelope that has more than 1 ballot, or a damaged ballot etc…. is disqualified ALL BALLOTS ARE PAPER – THERE ARE NO MACHINES/LEVERS/KNOBS ETC
The counting process from a citizens point of view: Once the ballot boxes are brought to the counting place and the counting begins, updates are provided in REAL TIME (every hour or so) on an official government website. You can quickly see the results broken down by municipality and even by individual voting stations. You can see how many eligible voters there were , how many actually voted, and even how many were disqualified.
This is the official results page from the most recent election. I refreshed it countless times last Tuesday. The media gets their results from the same place
Israel government election result website
Last week, the Israeli public voted the left out to the curb in very simple terms. It certainly restores some faith in the western democratic process
"Motor voter" has enormously bloated the registration rolls with people who will never vote and mail in balloting has simply enabled massive fraud using the names of those who will never vote. Just check the Chicago board of elections for the 2020 election and find all the precincts reporting +90% turnout, all of which correspond to the poorest minority neighborhoods. Any questioning of those results is then met with accusations of "racism." That's how the game works.
The Israeli electoral system IS good. The system has resisted every attempt by Hillery CLinton, Obama and now Blinken to destroy it and make the left all powerful in Israel.
Blinken has failed in Israel, but he has ruined Brazil.
For a national election, the Israeli is only casting one vote for a party. In the United States one could be voting for 3 Federal Offices. I am not sure how municipal elections work in the United States. Canada uses hand counted paper ballots because the only item for vote in a Federal Election is an individual for the Riding.
One of reasons the analog vote counting machine became popular in the United States is the lengthy ballots made hand counting a slow cumbersome affair.
Some of the Left seem to find the Israeli proportional representation system appealing. The United States is headed to perhaps the worst voting system with ranked voting.
My wife and I spent a lot of money voting bc I’m usually overseas (eg scenic Nevada today).
Never missed until COVID bc it was too cumbersome for someone who recovered from Covid and didn’t vaccinate.
Made it this time! I think Covid is what swung the liberals into power bc a fair number of people were unvaccinated.
That and Likkud is mediocre right. I’m way off the charts for it.
Some of that is due to the inherent oppositional defiance disorder inherent in most Jews. Order us to do something and we’ll either say “no” or engage in malicious compliance.
It’s almost like we have stiff necks.
“I recall when in college I had to go to a clerk’s office to request an absentee ballot, and my request was received with an id check and considerable suspicion.”
I have been voting absentee for years here in Montana.
I stopped voting in person when the Democrats gerrymandered my district...my voting place used to be at a country club I would drive by every day...
The new voting place was a volunteer FD which on a map is just two miles away, however this being Montana it was two miles on the other side of a large mountain range. I drove my Wife and her sister with MS to our new voting place...it took about a half hour. Then we had to — literally walk over a creek on a 2 x 12 (no handrails for handicapped folks like my Wife’s sister).
Sure the station has been upgraded since but it’s nice to get my ballot in the mail, research the candidates and bills. I drop off the ballot at the county court house. If mailed the ballots MUST be received by election day.
It is illegal to drop off more than 1 ballot with our having to sign an affidavit explaining why you have an additional ballot.
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