Acting Elections Committee Director-General Adv. Dean Livneh stated that election fraud in Israel is impossible, even if he personally wanted to do it, due to extensive technological and human safeguards. Livneh added that a conspiracy of tens of thousands would be required to rig an election, speaking at the 'Data, Power, and the State in the Age of AI' conference at Reichman University.
Acting Elections Committee Director-General Adv. Dean Livneh on Thursday categorically ruled out the possibility of forging Israeli elections, in remarks at an academic conference at Reichman University. “You cannot forge elections in Israel, even if I wanted to — I wouldn’t succeed,” Livneh said, according to a statement relayed by the Elections Committee.
Livneh detailed the layers of oversight: “The amount of measures the Elections Committee takes to protect every citizen’s vote is among the highest in the world. We have technological measures, human measures, checks at every stage, and inspectors at every polling station. There is no envelope whose origin and destination we don’t track.”
Asked about allegations that elements within the election mechanism could alter results, Livneh responded: “That’s simply not possible. At the polling station sit representatives from different factions, polling committee secretaries, inspectors, and observers who scrutinize each other. To forge elections in Israel, you would need a mad conspiracy of tens of thousands of people.”
The remarks come amid heightened public discourse on election integrity, including claims about electronic voting vulnerabilities and leaked videos from internal Knesset proceedings. The Zioneer has previously reported on Police Commissioner Danny Levi’s pledge of fair elections, and on the Knesset legal adviser’s assessment that, despite concerns raised by leaked video documentation, there are no legal grounds to annul the State Comptroller election results.
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