Knesset Vote Rigging Row

Eighty-two-year-old Ariel Merelman was stunned when officials at a polling station in Herzliya told him that his wife had voted, despite having died three weeks earlier. Officials apologized verbally, while the deputy mayor called for an urgent investigation into how her vote had been recorded and whether the incident had happened elsewhere. Turnout in the election was 77.9%. The right-wing and religious bloc won 53 seats, short of the 61 needed for a majority; the opposition bloc won 48 seats, and Arab parties won 19. Likud accused Arab parties of fraud and filed hundreds of complaints, but police and the election commission said they had found no evidence of systematic manipulation and that the individual incident did not affect the results.

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