Since losing his majority in the October 27 vote, Netanyahu and his allies have been pressing a serious accusation: the election was “stolen” by Arab parties through bribery, foreign funding and fraud. They are demanding investigations, arrests and, in the most extreme version, even canceling the vote and going to another round of elections.
They have yet to present any evidence, but the political goal is clear: to cast a veil of illegitimacy on the Joint List and Raam, the two Arab parties that saw record turnout and are likely to be a crucial part of any effort to oust Israel’s longest-serving leader.
Netanyahu did not lose the election outright, nor did he win it. The same is true for Eisenkot. Both fell short of the required 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament needed for a clear victory. Israel now faces weeks – perhaps months – of political uncertainty.
The bad thing about Trump being successful after claiming the US elections were stolen is that he provided a template for other super-shitty world leaders to follow.
The good thing, though, is that Trump has also kind of ruined the concept. Trump is such an obvious clown that when he did it, the rest of the world mercilessly mocked America, making the same stuff less likely to succeed in other countries.
Exactly. He shown the world that you can basically tell the stupidest lies ever every fucking days and you won’t get any consequence as long as medias are controlled by billionaires. “Children go to school and gets transitionned”, “All Muslim are jihadist”, “The left will create Stalin’s style communism”, etc.
France media are using the same playbook: “Student protests? Obviously the Muslim brothers”.
They have caught a handful of voter issues (like 3 or 4 individuals voting more than once.) They were all republicans voting for Republicans. Our country has very nearly 350 million people. Est. ~178million voters. [Statisa.com] if 3 or 4 people do it out of 178 million, we are amazingly well behaved as an electoral body. Fuck Trump, and fuck all fascists who would have us believe it is raining while they piss on us.
The only real demonstrable voter fraud issue that has been widely recognized came from the president himself trying to “find votes” in Georgia and of course, topped that sundae with J6.
More relevant than ever: there are 4 lights.
There was also demonstrable elections fraud at least once: NC-9 back in 2018.