Office of Elections

Not only will the soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen, and their families be legally invisible, they might be really gone as well....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 21, 2014.....

The Hawaii Election Commission has released its candidate report for the week ending February 7, 2014....

"Across the country voters have been misled by attempts to win elections by keeping people from the polls. We can’t let that happen here."

A candidate may obtain the Application for a Nomination Paper and receive and file his/her nomination paper at the locations listed below....

Minors, incarcerated criminals and illegal immigrants are represented in the 2012 Hawaii Reapportionment Plan. Military members and their “attached” spouses, as well as non-resident students, are not....

...the Court's order ends the case....

...the Give the People Hope campaign to engage and activate people across our islands who wanted to stay involved and change the way our government operates....

“Nothing to see here folks, move along” is the State’s central theme in its response to this appeal....

A key deadline on the election calendar passed with little notice December 3....

The State has hired some very big gun Supreme Court litigators at who knows what cost....

Although it dismissed the lawsuit -- the Party raised only a facial claim -- the court left open the possibility of an as-applied challenge....

The court upholds Hawaii’s open primary election against this facial constitutional challenge....

Plaintiffs attorneys presented their Jurisdictional Statement, arguing that there are substantial questions meriting the U.S. Supreme Court's full consideration in our appeal of a three-judge U.S. District Court decision upholding the Plan....

...this lawsuit, while not exactly popular, is part of a long-term gambit to take the Party -- and Hawaii....

Using the power of the state to equalize political outcomes, in a district where most citizens think one way, is a dangerous idea....

The man at the center of 2012′s general election disaster will not get a $36,000 pay hike....

In state reapportionment cases such as this, the Court has "appellate" jurisdiction to directly review decisions by the US District Court for the District of Hawaii....

Just as the GOP activists in Idaho want bad-intentioned Democrats and free-thinking independents out of “their” nominating process, so do Democratic Party leaders in Hawaii....

...removal of 108,000 non-permanent military and their families is “unconstitutional” and “discriminatory”....

We always believed that the issues in this case merited resolution by the U.S. Supreme Court....

Full text of today's ruling....

... thankfully “Our country has changed” ....

In response to Hawaii Democrats' suit to close their primary, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, columnist David Shapiro and Luxury Resort Developer Pierre Omidyar’s Civil Beat have all editorialized in favor of Hawaii adopting California’s ‘Top Two’ primary system....

Here are the Complaint and the Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Preliminary Injunction, filed yesterday....

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....

to ensure Democrats are elected at the primary stage by ONLY their fellow Democrats....

The GAO’s 2010 report concludes that the benefits supposedly derived from taxpayer financed campaigns do not occur...

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....

UPDATE: SB286 Approved with Amendments Thursday March 14, House Committee on Judiciary...

• Texas – 50.1%
• Oklahoma – 49.6%
• West Virginia – 46.8%
• Hawaii – 44.1%

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Shelby County (AL) v. Holder, the case raising the question of Section 5’s constitutionality....

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....

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....

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....

...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....

...Colleen Hanabusa underperformed Obama by the most of any incumbent in the nation....

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.

Attention Hawaii: Can this 'hybrid model' be trusted with Vote-by-Mail?

What would happen if voting by mail became compulsory? ... We answer that question in this paper....

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 ....