Exhibition & Challenges Stage

 Exhibition and Challenges Procedures

Objectives of Exhibition & Challenges:

• Viewing the Preliminary Voters’ Registry.
• Challenging the registration of individuals who are not eligible to vote.
• Correcting and rectifying the data of individuals whose registration or published data in the registry are incorrect.

Exhibition & Challenges Stage Parameters:

• The exhibition and challenges period extends over three successive days, starting the morning of February 7, 2026 and concluding the evening of February 9, 2026.
• The CEC shall open all exhibition & challenges centers (420 centers) at the local authorities’ premises across all districts of the West Bank.
• Exhibition & challenges center will be open from 9 am until 2 pm.
• Exhibition & challenges centers shall receive local observers and accredited journalists who hold the accreditation cards issued by the CEC.

Correcting personal data:

Any person, whose personal data published in the voters’ registry is incorrect, may submit a request challenging the accuracy of the data at the center where his/her name is exhibited, in order to correct his/her data.

Challenging the absence of voter’s name from the Voters’ Registry

Any person, who has been registered before and his/her name did not appear in the preliminary voters’ registry has the right to submit a request challenging the absence of his/her name, in order to be added to the Registry, given he/she provides all necessary documents to prove the grounds for his/her challenge.

Challenging the listing of others in the Voters’ Registry

Any citizen has the right to submit a request to the exhibition and challenges center, challenging the listing of any person in the Preliminary Voters’ Registry, who do not have the right to vote, supported with all necessary documents proving his/her claim, for any of the following reasons:

• The person is not Palestinian, according to the definition enshrined by the Law.
• The person will not be eighteen years old or more on the scheduled polling day.
• The person is denied the right to vote by virtue of a final court ruling.
• The person is lacking legal capacity by virtue of a final court ruling.
• The person is a holder of Israeli nationality.
• The person is registered in more than one center.
• The person has passed away.

 Notifying the person whose registration is being challenged within two days from submitting the challenge request, and said person has to respond at the same exhibition & challenges center where the challenge request is submitted, within three days from notification date.

The CEC will adjudicate submitted requests and issue its decision within 3 days, and its decisions shall be appealable before the Election Cases Court within 3 days of the notification date. The Court shall issue its ruling concerning the appeal within 5 days from submitting the appeal, and the Court’s decision on the matter shall be final. 

After the conclusion of the Exhibition & Challenges Stage, the CEC shall issue the Final Voters’ Registry based on the data that was collected and entered from the challenges and correction requests as well as Court rulings, if any.