Tag: voting
39 Parties Register to Run for 24th Knesset
Several pundits believe that Israel will be facing a fifth round of elections within months.
Election Commission CEO: We’re Adding More than 1,000 Polling Stations to Deal with Corona...
She said that a remote or computerized vote would have made her life simpler.
1,200 Quarantined Israelis to Vote in Special, Isolated Booths
The special polling stations will be located away from the regular polling facilities, so as not to jeopardize the public health.
It’s On: 21st Knesset Election Has Begun
There's no room for interference by Russian hackers in these elections because no computers are in use.
Local Democracy in Action
Israelis around the country go to the voting booths for municipal elections.
So You Live in Israel and Want to Vote in the US in November
Voting from overseas is very easy.
MK Begin Suspended for Voting Against Amona Regulation Act
'It's well known that when a coalition MK votes against the government line he knows he's going to pay a price.'
Bennett: If Law to Save Amona Fails, We’ll Stop Voting with Netanyahu Coalition
The threat was intended to pressure Likud to make sure all the coalition partners indeed show up to support the bill.
The Many Faces Of Election Season 2016
The election season in Brooklyn is no different. As a borough with one of the most eclectic mixes of ethnicities in all of America, voting for representatives is very important to its inhabitants.
Shiloh Musings: U.S. Elections: Voting With One’s Head, The Kipa Poll! #1
Defying the old adage, "Voting with your feet," it seems people are now voting with their heads.
Counting Votes
Israelis count the remaining ballots from soldiers and absentee voters at the parliament in Jerusalem, a day after the general elections for the 20th...
Three Arrested for Stealing Yachad Voting Slips
The Yachad party reports that their voting slips have been removed from dozens of voting stations.
Netanyahu Adopts JewishPress Blogger’s Electoral Reform Proposal
JoeSettler was surprised this morning when he saw that PM Netanyahu is adopting the electoral reform idea JoeSettler introduced on these pages.
Understanding Israel’s ‘Deal System’
While the Israeli media wrongly claimed that the Likud had made an extreme shift to the right in recent primaries, some commentators were correcting in observing the existence of a deal-system. (Part IV in a series about the Likud primaries).
Likud Primary Results and Voting in Israel
Yishai broadcasts from Jerusalem's International Convention Center to talk about the Likud Primaries.
The Problem with Haredi Magazines
Really? They had to ask the Rosh Yeshiva if they could help people?
Netanyahu Forced to the Right by his Rank and File
The more right-wing members, who are also better organized, may have won the day.
NY Jewish Boroughs Voted Romney
An analysis of a recent New York Times article examining the presidential voting trends of all the New York precincts determined that almost all Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods voted for Republican candidate Mitt Romney over Democratic incumbent Barack Obama.
UPDATED: Likud Primaries Extended to Monday
Due to computer glitches that have prevented many Likud members from voting, Likud primary elections which were originally extended until midnight on Sunday, have...
Likud Primaries a Mess as Members Wait Hours to Vote
Voting got off to a sluggish start with technical difficulties.
Do Expatriates Still Have the Right to Vote? (Podcast)
Did you know that you still have the right to vote, even if you live overseas?
Voting isn’t Revenge, it’s ResistanceVoting Isn’t Revenge
There are plenty of ways to cast the divisions between parties and movements, but the elemental act of voting divides rhetoric from motive. Obama called voting the best revenge, because for a sizable portion of his base that's exactly what voting is. Their votes are a violent act, a spiteful assault on a country that they can never participate in for economic or cultural reasons. Change for them is not a positive program, but a negative assault on the national majority. Bankrupting the country by robbing it for their own benefit is their revenge.
Voting Overseas
This year, American citizens living in Israel can vote in the upcoming U.S. elections, at the AACI (Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel)...
An Open Letter to Religious Zionist Rabbis
Dear Rabbi: With elections approaching in Israel, I am searching for a religious political party for which to vote. When I think about voting for Shas, I remember their support for Oslo, the surrender of parts of Eretz Yisrael, giving rifles to our enemies, and the terrible sea of Jewish blood that was spilled after the Oslo Accords were signed. That is not the Torah I am searching to find.
Vote Early, Vote Often!
The title of this article is the supposed motto of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, but for Americans living in Israel it means, literally, vote twice. Both Israel and America are holding important elections and, hopefully, most Orthodox Jews will be voting. The United States will be holding its regular four-year elections for president and many other offices, and Israel will be voting for an entire “new” Parliament (Knesset).
ACLU Sues to Block Anti-Election Fraud Bill in Michigan
Only citizens of the United States can legally vote in federal elections. So Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson added a yes/no question on ballot applications that asks: "Are you a United States citizen?" But according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, this simple requirement is "an election day disaster in the making." So the ACLU did what it usually does, which is to sue.
Russia Evicts USAID
The Russian government has evicted the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to the US State Department, accusing the organization of using its money to influence elections.
The Public Is The Last To Know
The charade is played out every evening on election day. Television news anchors and beat reporters, on local stations and the networks, come on the air full of breathless anticipation, seeking to build an atmosphere of nail-biting uncertainty.