ISRAEL: Netanyahu Claims Low Turnout For His Party

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Warning of the rise of the Left, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cancelled a planned campaign event in Ashdod on Tuesday and returned to Jerusalem, where he said he was going to work to “save the Right” and ensure that a right-wing government comes to power following the elections.

“I received a dramatic update that there is low turnout in Likud strongholds but that there is high turnout in left-wing strongholds,” Netanyahu said. “We have to save the Right. There are only a few more hours.”

It is unclear if Netanyahu’s warning is genuine or is part of his week-long campaign to get people to fear that he will lose in order to increase voter turnout among right-wing voters.

Netanyahu went to the beach on Netanya to tell people to get off the beach and vote pic.twitter.com/6uSZsLEcGB

— Lahav Harkov (@LahavHarkov) April 9, 2019

FYI-
Israel election results timeline:
– Polls close at 10pm

– Immediately: Exit polls from 3 TV networks: these are often treated as official results; they’re most definitely not.

– Overnight: Votes begin to trickle in, a clear picture likely by early Wednesday morning. (1/

— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) April 9, 2019

(Every vote counted by hand! No electronic voting.)

-Wed. morning: Claims of voting irregularities, fraud, invalid ballots addressed.

– Sometime Wed: Votes cast by soldiers, inmates, disabled, hospitalized counted. (Potential to boost a party a seat, or affect threshold) (2/

— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) April 9, 2019