Hawaii State Senators Les Ihara (D-Honolulu) and Maile Shimabukuro (D-Waianae) have introduced SB 205, to add write-in space on all Hawaii ballots. Currently, Hawaii is one of five states with a complete ban on write-ins. The bill has a preamble which says “The legislature finds that Hawaii has one of the lowest voter participation records in the United States…Eligible voters are often not interested in voting for the available candidates and refrain from voting at all. Write-in voting would allow voters greater freedom to support candidates of their choice and signify their displeasure with the available candidates. The legislature believes that the authorization of write-in voting would increase the number of registered voters that actually vote in each election.”
Senator Ihara has been in the legislature since 1994 and has introduced write-in bills in the past.
Have the Republicans said that such freedom of choice by the voters might allow a terrorist to win an election? Refresh me. Why are there any elections at all?
14th Amdt, Sec. 2 in the nearly dead U.S.A. Const. is still around — right to vote — abridged – denied.
How many write-in votes in 1866-1868 ???
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P.R. and App.V. — even in ALL de facto one party hack States like HI — full of Donkey voters.
#1- I do not understand your question. Is it just partisan sarcasm or are you questioning why no Republican sponsors for this legislation came forth?
There is only one Republican State Senator in Hawaii anyway. All the other State Senators are Democrats.
# 4 Does the lonely R state senator caucus in front of a lot of mirrors to feel better ???
Richard: What states besides Hawaii and Louisiana do not permit write-ins?
South Dakota, Nevada and Oklahoma. Of the five states, the only one that ever had write-ins was Louisiana, but write-in space in that state was abolished in 1975.
1975, of course, was the year that Louisiana began using the “top two” (“open primary”) for its state and local elections. The state began also using the “open primary” for its congressional elections in 1978.
What year did the party hacks in which regime start having UNEQUAL ballot access laws — with the party hack courts upholding such laws ???