08-27-2008, 03:16 PM
Yes Jane - the new elections office at the Pahoa marketplace will be open for walk-in/absentee voting from 9/8 to 9/18 weekdays from 8 am to 4 pm. Because the Pahoa HIS Cafeteria will no longer be a polling place, most of the people who previously voted there will have to go to the Pahoa community center. There will be extra staff, but still only one ballot counting machine and only one DRE (electronic voting machine), so there will be lines and a lot of backlog - especially considering the changes to the ballot wwhich will confuse lots of people and result in lots of spoiled ballots. Therefore, I strongly recommend that people vote ahead of time and avoid the lines and the stress.