Will this be the lowest voter turnout ever?

[strategist]

Central Elections Committee: 10.2% voter turnout as of 10 A.M., lowest ever in Israeli history at this hour (Israel Radio)

I guess that quite a few other people think Israeli politics are disgusting!

DON'T VOTE!!!!






Getting a little carried away here ;)

[Mediocrates]

Voter turnout up to 36 percent at 2:00 p.m.


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The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Jan. 28, 2003

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Voter turnout by 2:00 p.m. Tuesday had risen to 36 percent, or 1.692 million voters, after a very slow start to voting, the Central elections committee said.

In the last elections for the Knesset in 1999, 42 % had voted at this stage.

Analysts are predicting that voter turnout will be relatively low citing voter apathy and possible bad weather in the north and coastal plane.

Voter turnout as of 10 a.m. stood at 10.2 percent, the lowest ever voter turnout at this stage of the day in the history of the State, the Central Election Committee said.

Voting was underway with relatively few glitches.

In Ma'aleh Adumim a polling station had to be removed after a fire broke out at the original site. It was not clear what caused the blaze.

The Central Election Committee received complaints that in the city of Acre an election official tried to confiscate identity documents in an effort to persuade people to vote for his party.

Police in Jerusalem were called in to remove Shas and National Union party activist who were attempting to put up election propaganda stands in two polling stations in the neighborhood of Ramot and in Mevasseret Zion.

Israeli election law forbids any election propaganda within 25 m (75 feet) of the polling stations.

There were also reports of election graffiti sprayed on a number of Jerusalem stations. In the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Yisrael graffiti was sprayed on a school calling on Jews to boycott the elections.

Certain small sects opposed to a Jewish State before the Messiah comes boycott the elections or any other state institutions.

Police have also opened an investigation after a resident of the community of Meitar in the Negev discovered that someone had impersonated him and voted in his name.

A cheerful looking Labor Party chairman Amram Mitzna cast his vote early Tuesday morning at a school near his Haifa home, a short time later Prime Minister Ariel Sharon voted in Jerusalem.

"I hope this will be the last time we will have elections in the next four years," Sharon said as he cast his ballot at a Jerusalem high school. No Israeli government has served a full four-year term since 1988, and Sharon's outgoing coalition survived less than two years.

The Central Elections Committee reported that elections were underway without any hitches, with all 8000 polling stations opening as scheduled.

(With The Associated Press)