Hawaii's lack of referendum process will make that very challenging..
Actually, I think it's the citizens of Hawaii who traditionally don't engage in the referendum process that is afforded them that's the real hurdle in terms of citizen's engagement in the creation of our laws.
And while I will give you that the state legislature is scared shitless of its electorate, and as such we do not have a state wide Referendum process, we do have a county Initiative process which pretty much adds up to the same thing, but at the county level. Though to be sure, if enough people want a specific change they do have vehicles to bring them about, but we don't take advantage of them.
For those that don't understand the process, CB published an article.. Use The County Initiative Process To Create Change In Hawaii.. that goes a long way towards explaining it.. at..
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/use-th...in-hawaii/
Actually, I think it's the citizens of Hawaii who traditionally don't engage in the referendum process that is afforded them that's the real hurdle in terms of citizen's engagement in the creation of our laws.
And while I will give you that the state legislature is scared shitless of its electorate, and as such we do not have a state wide Referendum process, we do have a county Initiative process which pretty much adds up to the same thing, but at the county level. Though to be sure, if enough people want a specific change they do have vehicles to bring them about, but we don't take advantage of them.
For those that don't understand the process, CB published an article.. Use The County Initiative Process To Create Change In Hawaii.. that goes a long way towards explaining it.. at..
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/use-th...in-hawaii/