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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 |
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3 Things You Should Know About the Supreme Court and Voter ID
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:43 PM :: 5440 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court handed down one of its first major decisions of this term, striking down Arizona’s measure requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration....
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Friday, May 24, 2013 |
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Census looks at 2012 Elections: Hawaii Worst Voter Registration, 2nd Worst Voter Participation
By Andrew Walden @ 9:51 PM :: 5392 Views :: Office of Elections
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Hawaii will improve voter participation when Hawaii has a politically competitive two party system....
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Friday, April 26, 2013 |
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Study: 'Clean Elections' Often Favor Corrupt Incumbents Against Upstart Challengers
By Selected News Articles @ 9:11 AM :: 4359 Views :: Office of Elections
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The GAO’s 2010 report concludes that the benefits supposedly derived from taxpayer financed campaigns do not occur...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013 |
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Democratic Party Will File Legal Challenge Over Hawaii's Primary Election Laws
By News Release @ 2:19 PM :: 5787 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections
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The Democratic Party of Hawaii will file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court to seek an injunction against the state of Hawaii over its primary election laws....
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Testimony: Passage of SB286 Will Lead to State Court Challenge
By Selected News Articles @ 1:13 PM :: 3987 Views :: Office of Elections
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"What incentive do the plaintiffs have to withdraw their challenge IF they think they have a chance of prevailing in Federal Court?"
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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SB982 Changing the Way Votes Are Counted on Constitutional Amendments
By Selected News Articles @ 10:59 AM :: 5321 Views :: Office of Elections
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The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that a constitutional amendment only passes if at least 50% of the total ballots cast include a “yes” vote....
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 |
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Election Day Registration: Voters Subject to Media Hype
By News Release @ 11:11 AM :: 4375 Views :: Office of Elections
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This new class of voter would be most likely to follow the latest media hype....
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Thursday, April 4, 2013 |
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Election Day Voter Registration: Invitation to Chaos and Fraud
By Selected News Articles @ 1:59 PM :: 4810 Views :: Office of Elections
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...our lawmakers have apparently not checked in with the eight other states that currently have this system....
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Monday, April 1, 2013 |
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Hawaii Impact? Supreme Court Rejects Texas Reapportionment Case
By Robert Thomas @ 1:32 PM :: 6937 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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This morning, the Supreme Court released the order with the results of last Friday's conference, revealing the Court has declined to review Lepak v. City of Irving....
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Thursday, March 14, 2013 |
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SB286: Solomon Decision Allows Legislature to Define 'Permanent Resident'
By News Release @ 2:53 PM :: 9763 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Military, Office of Elections
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UPDATE: SB286 Approved with Amendments Thursday March 14, House Committee on Judiciary...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013 |
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Hawaii Had Lowest Election Turnout in Nation – 44.1%
By Selected News Articles @ 4:35 PM :: 5958 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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- Texas – 50.1%
- Oklahoma – 49.6%
- West Virginia – 46.8%
- Hawaii – 44.1%
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013 |
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Voting Rights at the Supreme Court Today
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:26 PM :: 5794 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County (AL) v. Holder, the case raising the question of Section 5’s constitutionality....
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Monday, February 25, 2013 |
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Reapportionment: Plaintiffs Attorneys Back SB286
By Robert Thomas @ 5:29 PM :: 6899 Views :: Office of Elections
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We are testifying in strong support of S.B. 286, which amends Hawaii Revised Statutes § 25-2 to define “permanent resident” for purposes of state reapportionment and redistricting as any person counted as a “usual resident” of Hawaii by the U.S. Census....
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Sunday, February 24, 2013 |
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Reapportionment: SB286 Would End Discrimination, Mandate Count of All Persons
By Selected News Articles @ 2:30 PM :: 6993 Views :: Military, Office of Elections
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Defines "permanent resident" for legislative reapportionment as any individual counted as a usual resident in the last preceding U.S. census within the State of Hawaii....
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 |
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Long Lines to Vote? Not for the Vast Majority of Americans
By Heritage Foundation @ 7:24 PM :: 6506 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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It certainly is heartwarming that Desiline Victor, the 102-year-old voter whom President Obama recognized in his State of the Union speech, continues to vote and take part in our democratic process....
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013 |
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Can Vote-By-Mail Fix Those Long Lines At The Polls?
By Selected News Articles @ 6:38 PM :: 5139 Views :: Office of Elections
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...cases of voting fraud are more likely to be through absentee ballots, The New York Times reported last fall, citing comment from some election officials. Compared to in-person voting, an absentee ballot also is more likely to be rejected....
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Friday, February 15, 2013 |
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KOS: Hanabusa Underperformed Obama the Most for any Incumbent in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 2:22 PM :: 9938 Views :: Democratic Party, Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections, Republican Party
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...Colleen Hanabusa underperformed Obama by the most of any incumbent in the nation....
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Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
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PEW: Hawaii Elections Performance Index Ranks 44th
By Selected News Articles @ 9:11 PM :: 5576 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Office of Elections
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Highest rate of nonvoting due to registration or absentee ballot problems: Hawaii was the only state with an increase in the rate of registration and absentee voting problems of more than 1 percent between 2008-2010.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 |
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Privitization: Post Office to be Replaced by 'Hybrid Model'
By NCPA @ 12:18 PM :: 6110 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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Attention Hawaii: Can this 'hybrid model' be trusted with Vote-by-Mail?
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 |
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PEW: Vote-by-Mail Favors Old White Democrats
By Selected News Articles @ 6:59 PM :: 5869 Views :: Office of Elections
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What would happen if voting by mail became compulsory? ... We answer that question in this paper....
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 |
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Hawaii County: In Election Cases, Time Deadlines Matter
By Robert Thomas @ 2:30 PM :: 6671 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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The case involved a challenge to the charter's requirement that a candidate for public office be a resident of the district in which she intends to run for at least 90 days ....
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 |
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Full Text: Green Party Sues Nago Over Botched Election
By Selected News Articles @ 2:13 PM :: 5759 Views :: Office of Elections
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The lawsuit claims the methodology and rules that were adopted and used did not comply with proper rulemaking....
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Sunday, November 11, 2012 |
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Election Sabotage: Is Jamae Kawauchi Kevin Cronin?
By Andrew Walden @ 9:15 PM :: 12622 Views :: Office of Elections
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Was Cronin sabotaged by Yoshina and Nago’s cronies in order to make way for Nago? In retrospect, the campaign against Cronin bears all the hallmarks of the campaign against Jamae Kawauchi.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 |
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Hawaii Election Results for State, County, and Federal Races
By Selected News Articles @ 1:27 AM :: 6852 Views :: Office of Elections
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Full Printout...GOP Legislative Caucus to be 1-S, 7-H
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Sunday, October 21, 2012 |
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Secret Letters Show Nago Timed Attack on Hilo Election Office with Workers Planning Sickout
By Selected News Articles @ 7:37 PM :: 13832 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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"We are not going to volunteer as long as (fired elections workers) are not reinstated or treated fairly...." -- April 18, 2012
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 |
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Nago Orders State Takeover of Hawaii County Elections
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 7712 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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How far will Nago go for Dwayne Yoshina's girlfriend?
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Thursday, August 23, 2012 |
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Akaka's Granddaughter Demands Supreme Court Order New Election in Kona HD 6
By News Release @ 5:09 PM :: 8365 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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Akaka’s lawsuit seeks a recount of the ballots cast, or alternatively a re-run of the primary election for her district.
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Friday, August 17, 2012 |
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Full Text: Nago Report on Hawaii Co Elections, Kawauchi Response
By News Release @ 7:26 PM :: 7866 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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... elections require the cooperation of the state and the counties working together and not pointing fingers at each other ....
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
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Tulsi Gabbard's precincts Inversely Correlated with Mazie Hirono's
By Selected News Articles @ 4:32 PM :: 7810 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Office of Elections, Politicians
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...there's significant evidence that there was a different dynamic going on, and one that didn't follow the sort of liberal/conservative dimension that we tend to focus on....
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Saturday, July 28, 2012 |
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FBI investigating? Sex, Lies and Retaliation at Big Island Election Office
By Andrew Walden @ 12:37 PM :: 19645 Views :: Hawaii County , Office of Elections
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Will bureaucrats undermine public confidence in elections 'for a good time'? Read on ....
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Monday, June 25, 2012 |
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Stanford University Paper Looks at Ranked Choice Voting
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 PM :: 11157 Views :: Office of Elections
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...strange results with RCV such as "Raising a candidate's rank on one's ballot does not always increase that candidate's chance of winning and in fact may decrease a candidate's chance to win"
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Sunday, July 31, 2011 |
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Hawaii’s Electoral College Dropout Scheme Debunked
By Selected News Articles @ 9:16 PM :: 7833 Views :: National News, Office of Elections
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Driving the compact is the memory of the 2000 presidential election, in which George W. Bush won the slimmest of electoral-vote majorities even though Al Gore gained a plurality of popular votes. But that election itself suggests a fatal flaw in the proposal....
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011 |
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Honolulu Council Unanimously Opposes Instant Runoff Voting
By News Release @ 7:25 PM :: 7406 Views :: Honolulu County, Office of Elections
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Today, the Honolulu City Council unanimously adopted Resolution 11-116 which urges the Hawaii State Legislature to defer action on House Bill No. 638, HD1 SD1 which would force the City & County of Honolulu along with the County of Hawaii to implement a new type of voting procedure during special elections called ‘instant runoff voting’ or ‘ranked choice voting’
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Monday, January 17, 2011 |
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Calif. Mayor’s Open Letter to Honolulu Council: Instant Runoff Voting is undemocratic
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 11183 Views :: Honolulu County, Office of Elections
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It is my understanding that there is a move in Honolulu to introduce IRV/RCV (ranked choice voting). I would suggest the Council not adopt IRV elections as it does not have the results intended. It will not result in a majority victor. There are many problems with ranked choice voting. At one time, I was a supporter of ranked choice voting but no more.
I was born and raised on the Island and still have many relatives on the Island. As someone from Honolulu, I would not want to subject them to instant runoff voting.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011 |
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Instant Runoff? Low-income voters struggle with ranked-choice voting
By Selected News Articles @ 10:33 PM :: 11907 Views :: Office of Elections
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Last week Hawai`i Free Press took a look at the experience of Burlington, VT voters who eventually voted to repeal Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). Today we are sharing a voting analysis by investigative reporter Lance Williams of CaliforniaWatch who evaluates a 21-candidate San Francisco Supervisorial election very similar to the one won by Tom Berg.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
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Instant Runoff Voting debunked
By Selected News Articles @ 7:44 PM :: 12804 Views :: Office of Elections
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Because voters in the Dec 29 special election for Honolulu County Council Dist 1 elected a Republican, Tom Berg; the billion dollar Progressives at Civil Beat have concluded that the system of elections must be changed, “to prevent such an election in the future.”
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Friday, September 24, 2010 |
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Rep Karl Rhoads, Oahu Co Democrats try to knock Iraq War Vet off HD 28 ballot
By News Release @ 7:20 PM :: 10603 Views :: Honolulu County, Democratic Party, Office of Elections, Republican Party
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“People of House District 28th should know who the ‘residents’ filing these petty complaints are. Lynne Matusow is an Oahu County Democratic Party official who has developed a habit of filing complaints against Mr. Chang to distract the campaign away from Karl Rhoads’ record of raising taxes and hurting small business. Anthony Chang is a former staffer at the Democratic Party who was paid to do one of the dirtiest jobs in politics-- follow opposing candidates around with a video camera. These people are not concerned residents and this is not an honest complaint.
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Monday, September 13, 2010 |
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Hawaii Democratic Convention renews call for closed primary
By Andrew Walden @ 8:01 PM :: 10637 Views :: Democratic Party, Office of Elections
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Hawaii Democratic convention delegates meeting at the Hilton Hawaiian Village May 29 approved a resolution calling for closed Democratic primaries.
Hawaii State law now mandates that political parties’ primaries be open to any voter who wishes to participate. But many Progressive Democrats feel that their ideological soul mates are having a tough time winning Democratic Primary races due to voting by non-Democrats.
Any move away from Hawaii’s current open primary system would require party line registration, causing tens of thousands of new voters to become enrolled members of both Democratic and Republican parties.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010 |
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Hawaii Chief Elections Officer: “Is it my job to get people to turn out and vote?”
By Andrew Walden @ 1:41 AM :: 9558 Views :: Office of Elections
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Nago told our interviewer he was unable to provide an estimate of how many ballots have been received by his office so far. But in a separate story today, KHON reported: "According to the office of elections, fewer than one fifth of the ballots have been sent back in by voters. Just 60,000 so far out of the 317,000 issued."
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Saturday, December 12, 2009 |
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Vote By Mail: “Tool of choice for voter fraud”
By Andrew Walden @ 6:42 AM :: 22033 Views :: Office of Elections
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...VBM concerns have been heightened by a number of disputed elections and documented cases of absentee ballot fraud....
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 |
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Star-Bulletin comes out against voter registration drive
By Andrew Walden @ 8:32 PM :: 25478 Views :: First Amendment, Office of Elections, Religion
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After years of pretending to be concerned about Hawaii's worst-in-the-nation voter participation, today the Honolulu Star-Bulletin has shown its true colors.
In an editorial titled "Religion risky for GOP", SB editors condemn a church-based statewide voter registration drive. They complain bitterly that, "...the goal is to convince 80 percent of Christian churchgoers to register to vote and then persuade 80 percent of those who register to vote...."
This contrasts sharply with the Star-Bulletin July 21, 2009 which cried, "Hawaii dead last in voter turnout."
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
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Hawaii Republicans challenge state's open primary system
By Andrew Walden @ 1:04 PM :: 15479 Views :: Office of Elections, Republican Party
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Hawaii County Republicans, meeting Saturday at Waimea have proposed changes to the way that State Republicans select their candidates. The proposals are contained in two resolutions adopted unanimously by the 50 delegates present after extensive discussion. One calls for a shift to a Presidential Caucus System for Hawaii Republicans who now select their Presidential delegates at the State Party convention. The other resolution urges the State Convention vote to shift Republicans from an Open Primary system to a Modified-Closed Primary System and then file a federal suit against the State to overturn provisions of the Hawaii State Constitution which require the open primary system.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009 |
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Hawaii Democrats debate closed primary (backgrounder)
By Andrew Walden @ 11:40 AM :: 14452 Views :: Democratic Party, First Amendment, Office of Elections
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This background file includes news articles, and letters to the editor by leading Democrats, regarding a possible shift to a closed primary system. Also included US Supreme Court rulings on two relevant cases.
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