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Nyhetsbyrån TT publicerade den 9 januari en rad telegram om det palestinska valet. Några versioner innehöll uttalandet av förre statsministern Carl Blidt, som närvarade vid valet som observatör (citeras efter bloggnen Alicio i Underlandet):

Han har inte sett några tecken på att väljare har hindrats av israeliska vägspärrar. "-De lokala personer som vi har med oss har varit utomordentligt förvånade över hur lätt det har varit att röra sig runt under dagen".

Bildts uttalande ströks däremot från de senare telegrammen för att ersättas mot anklagesler mot Israel (http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=22584&a=313746):

På eftermiddagen beslutade dock valmyndigheten att hålla vallokalerna öppna två timmar längre än planerat, eftersom vissa väljare sades ha fastnat i israeliska vägspärrar.

Idag den 15 januari avgick 48 palestinska valarbetare i protest mot oenigheter i det palestinska valet. En av de högst uppsatta medlemmar i valkommissionen talade ut vad som egentligen stod bakom förlängningen av öppettiden vid valet (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/527457.html ):

During the election, polls were to have stayed open for 12 hours, until 7 p.m. However, several hours after polls opened, turnout was relatively light, a cause of concern for Abbas, who was the front-runner but needed a decisive victory to win a mandate for peace talks with Israel.

"We were visited by senior officials from Abu Mazen's campaign, and we were pressured to change procedures on election day," al-Bakri said. Abbas is widely known as Abu Mazen.

During the meeting, shots were fired at the panel's headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In the end, the commission decided to extend voting by two hours and to allow voters to cast their ballots in any location, not only in their hometowns.

The change enabled thousands of members of the security forces, most of them Abbas supporters, to cast ballots near their posts, rather than traveling to their hometowns, some of them far away.

Dwaik and al-Bakri said Saturday that those decisions were made under pressure from Abbas' campaign, Fatah and the intelligence service.

"I was personally threatened and pressured," Dwaik said. "I am therefore announcing my resignation publicly, so that everyone knows that in the upcoming legislative election, this could happen again."

Bakri said voting hours are extended only in case there are long lines at the polling stations. "This was not the case on election day," he said.

"These (changes in) procedures had two goals, first to increase the turn-out, and second, to increase the percentage of Fatah voters," al-Bakri said.

Nu, när sanningen om det illegala förlängningen har kommit fram, är det rymligt att förvänta att TT ber om ursäkt för sina falska antiisraeliska anklagelser samt för att de har censurerat bort Carl Bildts uttalanden som inte hade stämt med anklagelserna.