Likud to appeal Knesset election results over alleged voter tracking

Likud plans to petition the court against the election results, alleging Arab parties used a smartphone app to track voters. Data shows Likud activists accounted for 32% of such app use. President Herzog tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party is preparing to appeal the results of the recent election, alleging that Arab political parties used electronic means to track voters in a manner banned by the High Court of Justice just before the vote. Likud lawyer Ilan Bombach told The Times of Israel that the party's polling station observers filed 700 complaints about Arab party activists using a smartphone app to track voter turnout, asserting that each complaint affected 'hundreds or thousands of votes.' However, the Civilian Election Guard, which sent volunteer observers, reported 374 instances of apparently illegal app use, with Likud activists and polling station workers accounting for 32% of all such incidents, followed by United Torah Judaism with 10%, Shas with 6%, Ra'am with 2%, and the Joint List with 1%. The appeal may be filed with the Jerusalem District Court by November 17. Separately, two ongoing investigations into electoral fraud are reportedly falling apart, according to Channel 12. President Isaac Herzog has tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government after 67 MKs backed him.