State's electoral restriction enacted a race-based voting qualification; Hawaii's denial of petitioner's right to vote, where petitioner was not a "Hawaiian", was a clear violation of the Fifteenth Amendment. ___ U.S. ____ (No. 98-818).

Absentee voting; when violative of right to vote. 623 F. Supp. 657.

Where plaintiffs filed motion for preliminary injunction regarding Act 359 of 1993 Hawaii legislature (relating to Hawaiian sovereignty), as amended in 1994 and 1996, plaintiffs not likely to prevail on constitutional claims under Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, articles I, §5 and II, §1 of Hawaii constitution, or Voting Rights Act with regards to native Hawaiian vote. 941 F. Supp. 1529.