Likud deploys teams to film Arab voters, prepping fraud narrative if results sour

In preparation for the upcoming vote, Likud has mobilized paid volunteers to monitor Arab voters outside polling stations, capturing video that will be sent instantly to the party’s command center. The scheme, described as one of the campaign’s largest financial outlays, operates outside the Central Elections Committee’s oversight because the observers are not official poll staff. Simultaneously, senior Likud figures are planning a contingency narrative that would blame alleged fraud for any major defeat, echoing previous attempts to question results.

Party members have discussed scenarios of a "stolen election" and are ready to distribute the footage as proof, even though the teams lack any legal power to confirm voter identities. Earlier, Likud’s Yoav Kisch raised similar fraud claims after the 2022 election, but those accusations faded after the party won the most seats. The new effort includes a “fraud war room” to collect reports of irregularities from observers across the country.