Drones will be used by the Central Elections Committee to monitor from the air the lines at 751 special polling stations across the country for the sick and quarantined from COVID-19 in Tuesday’s election, Central Elections Committee head Orly Ades said at an online press conference on Thursday.
If the drones see that the lines are too long, voters will be sent to other special polling stations. Vans and taxis will be taking the sick and quarantined to vote.
To further ease the lines at the special polling stations for the sick and quarantined, four polling stations will be placed in Ben-Gurion Airport for returning Israelis to vote. There has never been a polling station in the airport before, and there is no voting abroad for Israelis who are not emissaries.
The decision was made after the ruling by the High Court of Justice not to extend the Israeli flight closure. It is expected that thousands of Israelis will be returning to the country for Election Day.
The stations will be placed in the terminal prior to passport control. Voting will take place via double envelopes.
Ades said the airport polling stations would be intended for those returning from abroad on Election Day to enable them to vote before heading for quarantine. She told The Jerusalem Post at the briefing that the airport polling stations were not a pilot and did not set a precedent. She said they would only be used for this election, due to the special situation of the coronavirus.
There will be 13,035 polling stations across the country. The votes will be counted in the Knesset and in special tents built all over the Knesset’s porches and parking lots. Ades said the regular votes would be counted by Wednesday and the double ballots of the coronavirus polling stations, emissaries, IDF soldiers, and prisoners by Friday, ahead of the Passover holiday.
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