Hawaii Governor Signs Bill to Permit Nomination Petitions to be Filed Electronically

On June 6, Hawaii Governor Josh Green signed HB 134. It directs the state elections office to develop a system by which candidates may file nomination petitions electronically. The bill does not try to set forth the details of how that would work. This is not quite the same as allowing signatures to be collected electronically; instead it relates to submitting the petitions after they are finished.


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Hawaii Governor Signs Bill to Permit Nomination Petitions to be Filed Electronically — 12 Comments

  1. Qualified political parties should be able to nominate candidates any way they please.

  2. My feelings about the New York city Mayoral race are limited to hoping that Andrew Cuomo does not become Mayor. He single-handedly wrecked New York state ballot access in 2020. He forced the legislature to triple the statewide independent petition, and to increase the vote test for qualified status from 50,000 for Governor, to 2% for the office at the top of the ticket every two years. He is responsible for the fact that New York was the only state in 2024 with only Biden and Trump on the ballot.

  3. Hawai’i requires 25 signatures for congress or governor or lieutenant governor; 15 for legislature.

  4. When Silwa was chair of the Reform Party of New York they opened their primaries to unenrolled voters (termed Blanks in NY). They might even have permitted Opportunity To Ballot in some raced.

  5. I’m against shooting blanks.

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