Report Title:

Elections.

Description:

Allows a registered voter to vote at any precinct on election day.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1310

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to elections.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Chapter 11, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to part VII to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:

"§11- Voting in other precincts. A qualified voter may vote in a precinct other than where that person is registered to vote. The chief election officer shall adopt rules in conformity with chapter 91 to implement this section."

SECTION 2. Section 11-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen years or who is seventeen years of age and will be eighteen years of age by the date of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do so for that election. The person shall then be listed upon the appropriate county general register and precinct list. No person shall register [or vote] in any other precinct than that in which the person resides except as provided in section 11-21."

SECTION 3. Section 11-25, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:

"(b) Challenging on election day. Any voter rightfully in the polling place may challenge the right to vote of any person who comes to the precinct officials for voting purposes. The challenge shall be on the grounds that the voter is not the person the voter alleges to be[, or that the voter is not entitled to vote in that precinct]; provided that only in an election of members of the board of trustees of the office of Hawaiian affairs, a person registered to vote in that election may also challenge on the grounds that the voter is not Hawaiian. No other or further challenge shall be allowed. Any person thus challenged shall first be given the opportunity to make the relevant correction pursuant to section 11-21. The challenge shall be considered and decided immediately by the precinct officials and the ruling shall be announced."

SECTION 4. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect upon approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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