Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 7, Number 9, 1 September 1990 — Voter information for fall elections [ARTICLE]

Voter information for fall elections

The Hawai'i primary eleehon takes plaee this month on Saturday, Sept. 22. As a service to its readers, Ka Wai Ola O OHA provides these notices on the primary eleehon. Voters desiring more detailed information should contact the Hawai'i Voter Hotline at 453-VOTE or 1-800-442-VOTE on the neighbor islands. Register now for the general election Although the deadline has already passed for anyone wanting to register to vote in the primary election, there is still time to register for the general election. The deadline to register for the general eleehon is Monday, Oct. 8. The general election takes plaee on Tuesday, Nov. 6. In order to register, a person needs to be a U.S. citizen, a legal resident of the State of Hawai'i and 18 years old or older. You need to re-register to vote if you moved or changed your name since the 1988 elections or if you did not vote at all in 1988. Registering to vote is an easy process with the new mail-in Wikiwiki Voter Registration forms,

available to the public at libraries, post offices and hundreds of other retail locations. Registrants only need to piek up a form, complete it, sign it, put a stamp on it and mail it in to their county clerk (all addresses are provided.) For more information about where to get a Wikiwiki Voter Registration form eall the Hawai'i Voter Hotline. Absentee voting Voters may now apply for mail-in absentee ballots for the primary and general elections. Applications are available from the county clerk's office. They may also be obtained in the state's "Vote 1990" informational brochure whieh may be picked up at Wikiwiki Voter Registration locations. Absentee voting is permitted when a voter expects to be away from their home island or district on eleehon day, or if they are confined in a health care facility or senior citizen home, ill or disabled, confined to a penal institution for pretrial detention or a misdemeanor, or if they have a

conflicting religious belief. Applications for mail-in absentee ballots for the primary eleehon will be accepted until 4:30 p.m., Sept. 15. Application deadline for the general eleehon is 4:30 p.m. Oct. 30. OHA election The deadline for filing nomination papers to run for trustee of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has been extended to Sept. 17 at 4:30 p.m. by a new law. Nomination papers are available on O'ahu at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and on the neighbor islands at eaeh county clerk's office. Before filing, candidates are advised to obtain more signatures than the 25 required on the nominahon papers, in case of invalid signatures. Signatories should include their social security numbers and birthdates to aid in the verification process after filing. All signatories must be registered OHA voters. The OHA special eleehon will be held in continued page 27

from page 26 conjunction with the regularly scheduled general election on Nov. 6. To register to vote in OHA elections, a person needs to be of Hawaiian ancestry, a U.S. citizen, a Hawai'i resident and 18 years

old or older. Anyone who moved or changed their' name since the 1988 elections or who did not vote at all in 1988 will need to re-register to vote. Sccond Congressional District Race Lt. Governor Ben Cayetano reminds voters in

Hawaii's Second Congressional District that they must vote on two ballots if they intend to participate in both the special and regular congressional elections being held in their district on Sept. 22. On primary day, they will receive a packet of ballots containing one pink ballot and four white ballots for partisan/nonpartisan voting. Voters must select only two ballots — a pink one and a white one — to vote in the special election and regular primary election. "The pink ballot will be used for the congressional special election and Board of Education primary election in the Second Congressional District," said Cayetano. "The white ballot will be for the regularly scheduled primary election and will include the congressional contest and other contests as well." The winner of the special election — a one-time, winner-take-all contest — will fill the vacancy in the Second Congressional District by serving the remaining three months of the current term ending on Jan. 3, 1991. The vacancy was created when Daniel Akaka was appointed to the U.S. Senate. The winners of the regular!y scheduled primary election will move on to the Nov. 6, 1990 general election to determine whieh candidate will serve a full two-year term in the Second Congressional District, starting on Jan. 3, 1991. "Casting a vote in the regular primary doesn't automatically cast a vote in the special election," Cayetano said. "Voters must remember to vote on both ballots to vote for their candidate in the regular and special elections."