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Likud extends primary vote to determine party list
AP - Tuesday, December 9
JERUSALEM - The hardline opposition Likud Party extended its primary election at least into the early hours of Tuesday after computer glitches led to long lines and disappointed voters, Israeli media reported.
The vote will decide the opposition party's candidates for the Feb. 10 national elections, which polls indicate could sweep Likud to power. Candidates winning high spots in the primary voting would be well-set for a senior Cabinet post in a government headed by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
Voting was to continue at least two extra hours, until 1 a.m. Tuesday, and Likud officials planned to discuss during the night whether to allow further balloting in the morning, Israeli media said.
Even Netanyahu, a former prime minister, had to ask for help when he voted Monday morning at a computerized station, calling over an expert who joined him behind the cardboard barrier hiding the computer.
"There is no doubt that computerized voting has a long way to go," Netanyahu told reporters later, outside a crowded Jerusalem voting station Monday evening.
The computer foul-up followed a similar fiasco during primary elections last week for the centrist Labor Party, which canceled the electronic voting and rescheduled its primary two days later with paper ballots.
Netanyahu has been trying to portray himself as a moderate. He fears a strong showing by extremists in the primary would weaken Likud in the general elections.
February's elections are coming 18 months ahead of schedule. They were set in motion in September when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, then head of the centrist Kadima Party, resigned to battle corruption charges.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects that Netanyahu voted Monday morning, talked to reporters Monday evening. Voting extended until at least 1 a.m. (6 p.m. EST).)
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