Not Just Voter Turnout: The Failure That Decided the Elections in the Arab Sector

Shlomo Filber claims that the biggest bias in the elections was the operation of a pirate reporting software from within polling stations in the Arab sector, in violation of Judge Solberg's prohibition. According to him, the Elections Committee ignored the violation, which helped increase the power of the Arab parties by at least two mandates.

Shlomo Filber argues in the article that the biggest bias in the elections was not bribery of voters, but the systematic operation of a pirate reporting software from within polling stations in the Arab sector. According to him, activists of the Arab parties removed names of voters from the polling stations and passed them to operators outside, who urged those who had not yet arrived to come. Filber notes that the chairman of the Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, unusually banned the use of such software this year and warned the parties. He claims that the ban hindered the right's ability to gain 3–5 additional mandates, while the committee's disregard for the violation in the Arab sector helped increase Arab power by at least two mandates. The article does not include a response from the Elections Committee or representatives of the Arab parties.