Office of Elections

...Green Party of Hawaii, Non Partisan, Democratic Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Independent Party, American Shopping Party, Constitution Party of Hawaii, Hawaii Republican Party, and Libertarian Party of Hawaii....

... The deadline to file is Tuesday June 7 ....

The Candidate Report is available weekly....

... when it makes allegations like this, there's not going to be much doubt about the outcome, is there? ....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

...SCOTUS ruling confirms “one person one vote” standard for states....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

Here's what we are reading today....

Evenwel has transformed the "one-person, one-vote'" rule in reapportionment cases into more of a "one-person, one-representative" principle....

...Evenwel is the sleeper case of the Term, and opened the possibility that the we might finally get an answer to a question the Supreme Court has dodged for over fifty years....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016 ....

The candidate filing process allows qualified individuals to have their names appear on the ballot....

Candidates must complete and file a nomination paper to appear on the ballot....

The candidate filing process allows qualified individuals to have their names appear on the ballot.....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016.....

In advance of the Hawaii caucuses on March 8 and March 26, the Census Bureau presents a variety of statistics that give an overall profile of the state’s voting-age population and industries....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

Candidates must complete and file a nomination paper to appear on the ballot.....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1, 2016 through June 7, 2016....

A complete list of all candidates for public office who have pulled papers as of Friday Feb 5, 2016....

Candidate filing for the 2016 Elections runs from February 1 through June 7, 2016....

..."execution of the 2012 General Election fell short of the electorate's reasonable expectations" -- ICA, Dec 18, 2015....

The U.S. Supreme Court is now considering that question in a Texas case in which Hawaii’s decades-long exclusion of active-duty military and families from the body politic is front and center....

Tomorrow, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in two election law cases, Evenwel v. Abbott, No. 14-940, and Harris v. Arizona Ind. Redistricting Comm'n, No. 14-232....

in 2014 the difference in voting pattern between absentee voters and Election Day voters was as much as 37.2% ...

U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii’s Installation Voting Assistance Office will host a voter registration drive in the lobby of the main Post Exchange, Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m....

Hawaii AG joins amici brief supporting Texas in Evenwel v. Abbott....

Today we filed this amici brief in Evenwel v. Abbott....

...whether electoral districts should continue to be drawn using a state’s total population, which is the current precedent, or if the system should shift to account only for eligible voters....

Evenwel v. Abbott, the one-person-one-vote reapportionment case currently being briefed in the U.S. Supreme Court....

"The laws ... do not apply to Na‘i Aupuni" 

Click HERE to register to vote in Hawaii ....

...today's 5-4 decision in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Comm'n....

In Progressive World, there are at least four stages of legally becoming an adult....

A recent case to be heard by the Supreme Court may seem harmless on its face, but has much deeper ramifications for people of faith, and especially families....

...the Texas case may open up future Hawaii reapportionments to legal challenge if Hawaii persists in applying the same or similar standards....

...the new committee will explore whether Galuteria is qualified to serve....

...the Lava Tube dishonor is given for a lack of communication and keeping the public in the dark....

...come June, we'll be watching for more guidance from the Supreme Court.....

Voting has been compulsory in Australia since 1912 and appears to have reached about 94% voter turn-out in most elections....

The statutory standards for an original jurisdiction action in the Hawaii Supreme Court challenging the outcome of an election are pretty rigorous.... 

"...Defendants, pursuant to Hawaii law, selected this appointee through a process that ignores the Seventeenth Amendment...."

The Geoghegan firm successfully represented plaintiffs in Judge v. Quinn involving related Seventeenth Amendment issues resulting from the temporary appointment to the US Senate of Roland Burris....

...Waters argues that the voting results suggest 128 ballots may have been miscounted out of the 37,178 cast....

Two new House Republicans elected.  Anti-GMO initiative wins on Maui ....

In addition, the FBI will have special agents available in each field office and resident agency....