Office of Elections

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....

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....