Likud plans new turnout app after Israel’s election privacy restriction
Israel’s election committee has restricted Likud’s use of Elector over privacy concerns; the party plans to use Victory 26 for Tuesday’s vote.
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Israel’s election committee has restricted Likud’s use of Elector over privacy concerns; the party plans to use Victory 26 for Tuesday’s vote.
Likud plans to replace Elector with Victory 26 for Tuesday’s election after Israel’s Central Elections Committee restricted its planned use of Elector over privacy concerns, Al Jazeera said. Elector tracks election-day voter turnout.
The change affects how Likud can identify where to focus its efforts to get supporters to vote. Unlike Elector, Victory 26 would not reveal individual voters’ identities. It would show activists and party officials which areas have the lowest turnout.
Collecting individual names would remain a separate, manual task. Activists and officials would take the names of people who had voted, then target those who had not yet cast a ballot. The area-level information from Victory 26 would therefore be distinct from the voter names gathered by party workers.
Likud plans to use the replacement app during Tuesday’s general election.
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