Office of Elections

...Hawaii’s open primary system burdens the Democratic Party’s associational rights....

Full Printout of results Caldwell 43.9% to Djou 42.7% ....

Election Day Officials are recruited to assist voters, provide operational support, and ensure the integrity of the voting process....

Nomination papers will be made available, beginning on Monday, August 15, 2016, at the Office of Elections....

...Qualified Hawaii residents may now register and vote on the same day, at Early Walk-In Locations....

The outcome of this case may affect other situations where a state agency relies on an “internal management” argument and ignores that their procedures affect private or public rights....

...the agency should have adopted rules and because it had not, the specific practices were invalid....

Candidate information is available for all counties in Hawaii. Nearly three hundred candidates....

...2016 VoterVoice Survey Results....

...under Hawaii's statute governing challenges to nomination papers (HRS Section 12-8)....

At minimum, 43 elections will be decided without ever facing the general electorate.....

Today, June 7, is the last day to file ....

... TUESDAY June 7 is the last day to file ....

Hanabusa, Galuteria & Lei Ahu Isa pull papers to run for CD1 -- Tuesday June 7 is last day to file ....

After A Judicial Feeding Frenzy, The Hawaii Supreme Court Searches For Rules To Fix The Office Of Elections....

If there's one thing that makes lawyers sit bolt upright in a sweat at 3 am, it's the prospect of missing a jurisdictional deadline....

Tuesday June 7 is the last day to file ....

... Tuesday, June 7 is the last day to file ....

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 8:45 a.m....

...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....