Elections Officials Want To Tweak Hawaii s Mail-Voting Law Next Year - Honolulu Civil Beat
Elections Officials Want To Tweak Hawaii’s Mail-Voting Law Next Year
The Legislature may consider adjustments to in-person voting sites among other proposals after the state’s first foray into all mail-voting. Reading time: 5 minutes.
Hawaii Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago plans to ask the Legislature for changes to Hawaii’s mail voting system that could make it easier for officials to open more in-person voting sites and give voters more time to fill in their ballots.
In a report to the state Elections Commission, Nago said the Office of Elections plans to propose several measures. Chief among them is one that would give county election officials more flexibility than currently allowed under the law to open more voter centers, an issue that came to a head on Nov. 3 when thousands of voters waited for hours in lines outside Hawaii’s eight voter centers especially at Kapolei a