Israel’s Central Elections Committee is preparing contingency plans for the possibility of missile attacks on Election Day, including disruptions to both the voting and vote-counting processes.

According to an i24News report, High Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, chairman of the Central Elections Committee, is advancing a series of emergency regulations expected to be approved in the coming days.

The Central Elections Committee recognizes that the upcoming election could be held amid an ongoing military conflict and is therefore establishing clear emergency procedures to ensure both the continuity of the voting process and the integrity of the election under security threats.

Under the proposed regulations, if an air raid siren sounds while voting is underway, a camera will be activated at the polling station, and all ballots and voting envelopes will be collected and sealed in a designated emergency envelope. Members of the polling station committee will then take the election materials with them to a protected area, where they will safeguard them until voting can resume.

The committee members will also decide when it is safe to restart voting, if conditions allow. The regulations also address scenarios in which voting cannot resume for an extended period because of the security situation.

Preparations are also being made for the vote-counting process after polls close at 10:00 p.m. To enable a swift evacuation if a siren sounds during the count, ballots will be counted on a specially designed mat, allowing all sensitive election materials—including ballots, envelopes, and official documents—to be gathered within seconds and transferred to a protected area.

In addition, because of the large numbers of soldiers expected to remain deployed on the front lines, a special provision will allow them to identify themselves at polling stations using only their military identification tags.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)