A bill authorizing the District Court here to validate 50 previously rejected ballots, cast in last November’s elections to this city’s municipal government, was passed by a Parliament committee today. If the measure is finally adopted, it will avoid the necessity for holding a new election here. Under the law, such an election must be held not later than February 4.
The effect of the bill would be to give the General Zionists a seat in the Municipal Council. The batch of votes invalidated by a court here a week ago was found to contain five additional votes for the General Zionist list, which had lost out by four votes in the official tabulation of the November balloting.
Adoption of the bill by the committee gives it priority, so that it may be passed by the Parliament on final reading.
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