חוק הבחירות לכנסת (תיקון מס' 67), התשע"ז-2017Law on Elections to the Knesset (Amendment No. 67), 2017 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The amendment establishes several changes to the Knesset Elections Law, including: a special voting arrangement for employees and members of the Central Elections Committee and for employees of the regional elections committees. In addition, the Central Committee was authorized to transfer a locality from one electoral district to another, provided the latter is adjacent to the former. It was also determined that the appointment date of the regional elections committee would be moved earlier, and an arrangement was established whereby the Ministry of Interior will transfer to the Central Committee information about a person whose death was recorded in the population registry, up to the 10th day before the elections, in order to prevent fraudulent voting in the name of deceased persons. In addition, an option was established to authorize the chairperson of the Central Committee and their deputies to balance the voter rolls among polling stations located in the same complex, and even to cancel polling stations if necessary, in order to regulate overcrowding at polling stations. It was further determined that the voter list at a particular polling station will be handed to the secretary of the polling station committee rather than to the chairperson of the polling station committee, whose identity is sometimes unknown at that time. In addition, the presence of employees of the Central Committee and the regional committees at polling stations during voting was permitted; it was determined that an envelope containing three identical ballots would be considered valid; the authority of the chairperson of the Central Committee to order that election materials from certain polling stations not be destroyed at all, for purposes of police investigation under the Elections Law, was established. In addition, the option to fund transportation costs for voters from one locality to another, regardless of the distance between the localities, was permitted. Finally, it was decided to clarify that the prohibition set out in Section 28ke25(3) of the Parties Law does not only prohibit the use of funds of supervised bodies in connection with campaigning, but also tangible or intangible assets of such bodies.

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