Supreme Court Justice Haim Cohn, who headed the Central Elections Committee, has recommended that the whole system be drastically overhauled in future elections. He said there was far too much complicated paperwork–both in the voting process itself and in the subsequent checking and counting process. Cohn advocated the American-style electric voting machine as a much needed simplification. He said he was gratified by the high turnout and by the very low number of blank ballots used by protest voters for whom none of the 21 lists were adequate to receive their protest vote.
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