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Low-tech Labor primary means return to paper ballot By Roni Singer-Heruti Labor Party primary voting is set to resume for the second time this week, overshadowed by a computer glitch that led to voting being suspended on Tuesday. Sources in the party say they are more concerned about possible voter fraud than anything else. "Ninety-nine percent of the voters are law-abiding but the one percent that is not could do us a lot of damage," party secretary general MK Eitan Cabel said yesterday. Cabel's choice to go with electronic voting this year stemmed from just such vote fraud in previous elections. Advertisement Cabel recorded a message yesterday that went out to voters' phones in which he called on them to vote and apologized for the disruption of the primary vote earlier this week. Voting will begin at noon today at 175 polling stations throughout the country, which will remain open until 10 PM. This time, voters will make their selection according to the long-standing system of marking a paper ballot. As opposed to electronic voting, where party members could vote wherever they wanted, manual voting requires voters to go to the polling station nearest their home and identify themselves by an identity card viewed by the polling station committee. Because of the slow manual count, results are expected only around midnight tonight and final results should be posted early tomorrow. The party is spending NIS 1 million on today's primary and even more than that amount on Tuesday's failed polling. The 18 candidates on the national list spent most of yesterday on the phone persuading potential voters. Observers are predicting that the first three slots on the list will go to Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog and MKs Ophir Pines-Paz and Shelly Yachimovich. Where voters will rank deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai and Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer on the list is uncertain. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Settler rampage Video shows settler shooting Palestinian in the stomach from point-blank range. Living side by side An historic Chicago synagogue neighbors Barack Obama's house.

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