Office of Elections

Federal law protects against such crimes as intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input....

...voters’ choices for senators in swing states hold much more power because they determine which political party controls the Senate....

Election history reveals a perpetually glaring problem....

Voters are eligible for late registration for the General Election at an early walk-in voting location....

Senators Schumer and Leahy: Hawaii Should Revise Voter Registration Deadlines to Comply With the National Voter Registration Act....

Only 64% of eligible Hawaii residents are registered to vote.... 

...Complete List of Ballot Questions....

...UPDATE: Dems Will Seek Removal of Kaaihue from Ballot....

...Democrats noted that their party has just 65,000 formal members but turnout for the Democratic primaries in Hawaii hit a quarter of a million people....

...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....