UTJ has set up special Kibbutzim Headquarters, whose members
will be present on election day at the voting polls on
kibbutzim throughout the country. These activists, in
conjunction with other religious parties, will serve as
members of poll committees and observers on behalf of UTJ.
As is known, quite a number of kibbutz members are suspected
of duplicity at the polls. At a meeting of UTJ's secretariat
last week it was decided to send chareidi reserve soldiers to
polls in the kibbutzim in order to supervise the voting and
to prevent possible deception. During the last elections
there were numerous complaints about such deceit. Reports
often found that there were kibbutzim where all members --
even those no longer among the living and those who were
abroad on election day -- seemed to have voted.
According to UTJ's estimates, tens of thousands of votes were
forged, which was equivalent to 3-4 mandates or even more.
Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, a candidate on the UTJ slate and
chairman of the Election Day Headquarters said, "The members
of the kibbutzim and the Leftists like to gripe about forgery
at chareidi voting centers. From their point of view, that is
the only way to explain the high rate of voting in the
chareidi sector. But Chazal say that those who disqualify
others, actually disqualify them for a fault they themselves
possess. Apparently the kibbutz members know quite well how
they organize voting for all their members."
The Kibbutzim Headquarters of UTJ has arranged for hundreds
of activists to be deployed throughout the country's
kibbutzim, in conjunction with the other religious parties,
in order to prevent forgery in the kibbutzim, which
apparently takes place on a massive basis.
