Office of Elections

...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....

Find your polling place and print out a sample ballot from the Hawaii Office of Elections....

...the election being conducted by Defendant Nago and the State of Hawaii Office of Elections is unconstitutional under the Seventeenth Amendment....

Keonepoko and Pahoa High School will remain as election polling sites for the General Election on Tuesday, November 4....

Early Voting Walk-In Locations ....

...Hawaii disposable income = $34,683 rank 47th of 51....

Today must be election contest day at the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...No accountability for past and present errors in the election process by the Chief Elections Officer....

You can tell what kind of case is before what Hawaii appellate court by the case designation at the top of the fist page flysheet....

...the staff decided to start over and re-read all memory cards. It is at this point that one memory card was not read again....

Three Hawaii lawmakers called on the State Elections Commission to fire Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago Friday during a standing room-only commission meeting....

...Thursday at 4:30 p.m. was the statutory deadline for instituting an "election contest" in the Hawaii Supreme Court....

...The ACLU lawsuit asks the Hawaii Supreme Court to allow any registered voter affected by Iselle to cast a vote to be included in the August 2014 primary results....

...lawsuit filed Thursday asks the State Supreme Court to allow any registered voter affected by Tropical Storm Iselle to cast a vote....

...I heard from many who feel strongly that they were disenfranchised from the voting process this election and I stand ready to support any collaborative effort to have those voices heard....

Candidates would have until this Thursday to file a complaint. The Supreme Court would then have four days to make a ruling....

...Lawmakers would have to round up 17 Senate and 34 House members willing to do it, and they’d need five days to move any bills through....

...With Puna voting completed and 800 mail-in absentee votes 'found' on Maui....

...Chief Justice Recktenwald is soliciting applications from residents of the County of Maui....

...Puna residents have been shamelessly made the latest pawns of Progressives as they desperately attempt to hold on to power after a stunning rebuke at last Saturday’s primary elections....

...Though the judge in the case had numerous problems with holding a hasty election without proper notice, he ruled that "the court is not supposed to interfere with an ongoing election process even if it is unconstitutional."....

...The motion for preliminary injunction asserts that holding the postponed election on Friday is just too soon, essentially because the two precincts are still a mess....

...To ensure unbiased counsel through the remainder of this election, the Office of Elections should not continue to receive legal advice from Mr. Louie....

...New Age seekers, Hawaiian sovereignty activists, organic farmers and the odd pakalolo grower....

...we'll see soon enough how the challenge is framed, in what court it is brought, and what relief it seeks. Stay tuned....

...This repeated change in the date, location and method of the election; 3 times in 3 days, twice within hours of each other, is a violation of the election laws....

Ige got 143,835 votes, Abercrombie, 67,368....

...Credits His Opposition to Race-Based Nationhood for Strong Public Support....

...all votes statewide have been counted, except for two in the Big Island's Puna district, in which up to 8,000 votes may be in play....

...Delayed Voting Could Sink Hanohano....

...With no announced closures or delays due to the impending hurricanes, we wanted to let you know that we are still working hard to turn Republicans out on Primary Election Day this Saturday....

...Chairs of the Hawaii Republican Party and the Democratic Party of Hawaii issued a joint call for voters to cast their ballots early....

Help keep Hawaii elections honest--volunteer as a precinct worker....

“When my ballot was stolen, I felt so violated. I am very concerned about corruption here on the island,” Woods said....

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....