Figure 4: Response on the inquiry with Shin-Bet Head Argaman says: "The Shin-Bet is neither the Committee's guiding authority, and therefore nor its systems certifying authority."
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Already upon receipt of the Committee's FOIA response, it was deemed false and misleading on a number of issues. Therefore, objections and request for corrections were filed with the Committee already then. Now, following the receipt of the response on the inquiry with the Shin-Bet, the Committee was again asked to provide a corrected FOIA response without any further delay.
US and Israeli publications claim large-scale computer fraud in the 2015 general election
The FOIA request was filed on the Central Election Committee following publications, which claimed serious computer fraud in the 2015 general election:
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Daily Kos, the US-based blog, was the first to publish such claims, days after the election. Daily Kos is an influential blog, which had published in the past information, which clearly originated in the Obama White House. The report regarding the Israeli general election was attributed to "Athenian" (living most likely in Athens, often reporting on Middle-eastern issues), based on information obtained from retired US diplomat Brady Kiesling. However, it was unlikely the the data originated with either Kiesling or Athenian...
Figure 5: US publication in Daily Kos immediately following the Israeli 2015 general election. [2]
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A few weeks later, Attorney David Levi (a colorful character -- now criminally prosecuted for NIS 17 million embezzlement from the Tax Authority, for whom he acted as an outside attorney), published similar data in Israel. Consequently he also filed a petition with the Supreme Court, which was summarily denied for "lack of standing". It is unlikely that the data originated in Levi either...
Figure 6: One of the publications in Israeli by Attorney David Levi, which claimed computer fraud in the 2015 general election. [3]
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The similarity between the data and the mode of presentation of Daily Kos's and Levi's publications raises the presumption that they both originated in the same source. And since Levi makes no secret of his Shin-Bet contacts, one can presume that some in the Shin-Bet leaked the data, which were the source of the publications both in Israel and in the US.
Even prior to the Shin-Bet's response, the Committee's FOIA response was deemed fraud.
The FOIA request on the Central Election Committee sought documentation that IT systems of the Committee had been developed, examined, are operated and secured in compliance with the law and binding state standards. The Committee's FOIA response included almost 200 pages. Moreover, correspondence with the Committee made it clear that three (3) attorneys were involved in drafting the response:
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