People Infected with Coronavirus Vote at  Israel’s Election

As of 4:30 p.m., according to the local time in Israel, 3,260 people under quarantine due to the infection of the Coronavirus have voted in the special polling stations set up for them throughout the country.

Voting at polling stations for quarantined people extended till 7 p.m.

Voting at special polling stations for inpiduals under self-quarantine due to fears they were exposed to the Coronavirus will be extended by two hours due to crowding and delays at the 16 locations throughout the country, the Central Elections Committee says.

The special set up booths will now remain open until 7 p.m. instead of 5 p.m. as originally planned.

Voting has been slow-going at the stations due to the lengthy safety procedures in place at the sites to ensure the ballots cast by the voters are sterile.

The CEC is also setting up two additional voting stations for this population, one in Tel Aviv and another in Kfar Saba.

Voters speak of weariness, waste of money as they vote for 3rd time.

Several voters speak to the Ynet news site about their feelings about the election, Israel’s third in less than a year.

The general attitude seems to be one of weary resignation.

“We need to do it, we need to get it over with,” says Itai Oren of Kibbutz Reshafim in northern Israel.

“There’s a great weariness, great exasperation with the process, the style and attitude… Enough, finish it and start running this country.”

Kohavit Mor of Tel Aviv says: “It’s a waste of money. A crime. There’s no other word for it. I feel I’m a party to a crime. People are sick with cancer in hospitals… and billions are being spilled here.”

In Haifa, Adham Odeh says Arab voters will “vote the third time and the fourth time and the fifth. We’ll come and vote as much as we need to, and God willing tomorrow morning we’ll wake up with 16 seats [for the Joint List].”