PM Netanyahu's cabinet approved legislation to have cameras in polling stations in Israel's election, what opponents said was meant to intimidate.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet approved draft legislation that would allow cameras to monitor voting stations.Previously, police with body cameras were sent to monitor stations in largely Arab areas.Read more stories like this on Business Insider's homepage.
In the previous election, Netanyahu's Likud party sent monitors equipped with body cameras to several polling stations with Arab constituents in what Arab politicians described as voter intimidation. "Everyone films," Netanyahu said in public remarks at the meeting."Any shop is filmed by cameras, so the polling stations are the only places where you can't film?"
" is preparing the ground for the day he declares, 'Arabs have stolen the elections', and contests the results if he loses," Odeh said. The proposed bill was opposed by the head of the Central Election Commission that oversees the vote, who said the last-minute introduction of cameras might"lead to chaos".
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