Gold mine: The Israeli startup trying to discover who will come to the polls - and who will stay home
Two days before the elections: The "Kol Kol" initiative reports recruiting 25,000 volunteers and a technological system for analyzing voting patterns. The organizers claim a cyberattack disabled their operations for 26 hours.
Two days before the elections for the 26th Knesset, the "Kol Kol" initiative reports recruiting over 25,000 volunteers, Jews and Arabs, organized around about 2,000 cluster managers in neighborhoods across the country. The initiative seeks to increase voter turnout among the camp opposed to Netanyahu, based on analysis of previous election results at the polling station level. According to the organizers, in the elections for the 25th Knesset, over a million voters identified with this camp stayed home. Behind the technological system is the company PolaAI, which developed a system combining election data with analysis of public discourse on social networks. The organizers claim a cyberattack disabled the system for 26 hours, and that they received inquiries from Channel 14 which they defined as attempts at silencing. The initiative is not affiliated with any particular party and operates on public donations under the supervision of the State Comptroller.