The Hawaii bill to use Instant Runoff Voting in special elections, HB 638, will not pass this year, even though it had passed both houses. On the evening of April 28, the conference committee tabled the bill. The committee expressed concerns about the difficulty of re-programming the vote-counting machines.
The machines are Hawaii’s least worry; the problem is the iniquity of IRV. The matter should be dropped from consideration by the state.