Office of Elections

The deadline to register to vote in this year's Primary Election is this Thursday, July 10th....

The law makes it legal for voters to register to vote – and to vote – on Election Day beginning in 2018....

Abercrombie today signed House Bill 2590 (Act 166), a measure that will allow voter registration at absentee polling places beginning in 2016 and late voter registration, including on Election Day, beginning in 2018....

We ask all those who are not already registered to fill out a voter registration application, which will be made available to you at Mass the weekend of June 21/22....

The new apps allow residents to locate their voting precincts, learn how lawmakers are utilizing their campaign funds, search for donor history and more....

...twelve candidates have no challenger....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

With the June 3 deadline to file quickly approaching, the Office of Elections is updating filing information daily....

The Hawaii Office of Elections has released its candidate report for the week ending May 23, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending May 16, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending May 9, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending May 2, 2014....

Super PACs and special interest groups look set to have the opportunity to hijack all future elections in Hawaii if HB2590 CD1 passes....

...may the challenger institute a quo warranto lawsuit in state circuit court?

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 17, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 11, 2014....

Hawaii was again last in voter turnout in 2012, with its rate decreasing 4.6 percentage points from a nation’s worst 2008 rate....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending April 4, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 28, 2014....

"This is going to be a party of diversity and inclusion where those who are not at the extreme left or right of the political spectrum can come and voice moderate views that they feel will move Hawaii forward."

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 21, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 14, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending March 7, 2014....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 28, 2014....

Average characteristic of an area over the entire 5-year time period.  Data is based on a survey....

Not only will the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and their families be legally invisible, they might be really gone as well....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 21, 2014.....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 7, 2014....

"Across the country voters have been misled by attempts to win elections by keeping people from the polls. We can’t let that happen here."

A candidate may obtain the Application for a Nomination Paper and receive and file his/her nomination paper at the locations listed below....

Minors, incarcerated criminals and illegal immigrants are represented in the 2012 Hawaii Reapportionment Plan. Military members and their “attached” spouses, as well as non-resident students, are not....

...the Court's order ends the case....

...the Give the People Hope campaign to engage and activate people across our islands who wanted to stay involved and change the way our government operates....

“Nothing to see here folks, move along” is the State’s central theme in its response to this appeal....

A key deadline on the election calendar passed with little notice December 3....

The State has hired some very big gun Supreme Court litigators at who knows what cost....

Although it dismissed the lawsuit -- the Party raised only a facial claim -- the court left open the possibility of an as-applied challenge....

The court upholds Hawaii’s open primary election against this facial constitutional challenge....

Plaintiffs attorneys presented their Jurisdictional Statement, arguing that there are substantial questions meriting the U.S. Supreme Court's full consideration in our appeal of a three-judge U.S. District Court decision upholding the Plan....

...this lawsuit, while not exactly popular, is part of a long-term gambit to take the Party -- and Hawaii....

Using the power of the state to equalize political outcomes, in a district where most citizens think one way, is a dangerous idea....

The man at the center of 2012′s general election disaster will not get a $36,000 pay hike....

In state reapportionment cases such as this, the Court has "appellate" jurisdiction to directly review decisions by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii....

Just as the GOP activists in Idaho want bad-intentioned Democrats and free-thinking independents out of “their” nominating process, so do Democratic Party leaders in Hawaii....

...removal of 108,000 non-permanent military and their families is “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory”....

We always believed that the issues in this case merited resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court....

Full text of today's ruling....