Highest Primary Voter Registration in History

[opihikao]

FYI:

http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/07/highest...f0c7047aa5


Highest Primary Voter Registration In State’s History

The number of registered voters for the upcoming Hawaii's upcoming primary election is higher than it has been for any other primary since 1959.

The Aug. 9 election has the largest number of registered voters in the state’s primary history, according to the state elections office.

And with 298 candidates running for a total of 102 seats, there is a lot at stake.

U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz and U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa are locked in a tight race to decide who wins the Democratic nomination for former Sen. Daniel K. Inouye’s senate seat that has grabbed national attention from the New York Times, among others. The governor’s seat is up for grabs and the Office of Hawaiian Affiars (OHA) is holding its first ever primary with five of nine seats open.

July 10 marked the end of voter registration for the primary.

[missydog1]

That's exciting, opihikao. Thanks for sharing that. Apathy is losing out. []

[TomK]

I'm not sure those numbers mean anything. How much has the state's population grown in the last few years? Without any raw data one could say this is simply because more people live in the state than before. A more meaningful statistic would be the percentage of the population that have registered, not the total number. It's like reading the weekly police reports about DUIs and deaths on the roads and giving us the percentage increase or decrease to one decimal point compared to the previous year, it's meaningless without context and taking into account the relatively small population of the state. Sorry, I don't share the excitement.

[opihikao]

Good point, Mr. Tom. Numbers are still a little low, and I believe we have the worst voting percentage in the country. Auwe!

Kathy, it's encouraging, just hope "damaged ballots" (on another thread) doesn't wiped out the percentage gained.

Good luck to all candidates, and good luck to the elections division this time around.

JMO.

[pahoated]

Ilagan vs Blas was about 6,000 total voters for the district. Puna total is about 45,000 but about 1/3 of that are too young to vote. Probably another 5,000 to 10,000 are snowbirds/foreign. Here are the results from the last election. Still trying to figure out how Fred Blas was a "crony insider" and got voted out by a college student? Shouldn't this supposed locals corrupt insider group have been able to sway this election their way if they had this imagined power?
http://hawaii.gov/elections/results/2012...es/coh.pdf

"This island Hawaii on this island Earth"

[missydog1]

That is indeed a shame about damaged ballots. I don't understand why some voters can only vote absentee. What is the reason for that? I always go to my polling place and have never signed up for the absentee ballot, but understand why people want to vote absentee. Shouldn't they have a choice though?

I did not realize the voting population may have grown enough to account for the increase. I certainly hope more of the people are deciding to vote.