High Court Bars Parties From Receiving Identifiable Election-Day Turnout Data

Israel's High Court unanimously barred party representatives at polling stations from sending parties identified information on whether individual voters had cast ballots. The ruling overturned the Central Elections Committee's September 6 permission ahead of the October 27 Knesset election. Justices Yael Willner, Alex Stein and Khaled Kabub held that access to polling-station records serves election administration and supervision, not campaigning, and that longstanding practice did not supply statutory authority. The decision still allows parties to contact voters generally and encourage turnout, while prohibiting real-time transfer of identifiable turnout or non-turnout data from polling stations.