The World Zionist Congress elections continue until May 4. The Congress, with representatives from Jewish communities around the world, allocates funds to various programs and organizations in Israel and elsewhere. JFeed reports that the Area Election Committee overseeing the election in the United States has launched a fraud investigation into voting irregularities that benefit two of the 21 slates of candidates seeking representation. JFeed explains:
Voting in the World Zionist Congress requires a name, address, email, and a modest fee, safeguards meant to ensure authenticity. Yet the AEC uncovered patterns that defy innocence: half the flagged registrations looped back to 50 email variants, often appended with numbers, while 430 traced to a single K-8 yeshiva in Brooklyn. Six addresses, spanning New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, overlapped suspiciously, and the prepaid cards, all from TransPecos Bank and Pathward, suggested a coordinated financial effort.
“This isn’t mischief by overzealous supporters,” the AEC chairs asserted. “It’s a carefully orchestrated, costly scheme to manufacture votes and defraud the process.”
