The absentee ballot conundrum

Evelyn Gordon has an eminently sensible discussion of the absentee ballot issue I discussed on Tuesday. The proposal put forth by Netanyahu’s largest coalition partner, Yisrael Beiteinu, would allow absentee ballots for anyone who has held a valid Israeli passport for the past 10 years — about 500,000 people. And opponents are right that this is far too broad. First, in terms of sheer numbers,