Registration outside polling stations and an electronic system: United Torah Judaism activists report who is voting

United Torah Judaism has launched a new initiative to register voters outside polling stations using forms and an electronic system, after the High Court of Justice banned representatives at polling stations from transmitting voting data in real time. The goal: to encourage voters in areas with low turnout.

United Torah Judaism prepared for the elections taking place today (Tuesday) without the ability to track accurate voting data from polling committee representatives, as it had done in the past, after the Central Elections Committee and the High Court of Justice ruled that this practice violates privacy. The party recruited hundreds of activists who will fill out forms for every person who voted and send them to the local headquarters, where they will be entered into an electronic system developed for this purpose. The monitoring is intended to map the real-time situation in each community, Hasidic sect, and neighborhood, and to encourage voters in areas with low turnout. Agudat Yisrael asked voters to report to a call center after voting, and Shas established a telephone headquarters to try to track voting rates.