STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1300-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2670
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which
was referred S.B. No. 2670 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to modify current election
law to allow a ballot checkbox to appear on either the right or
the left of a candidate's name.

     Testimony in support of this bill was provided by the Office
of Elections.

     Your Committee finds it reasonable to allow flexibility in
the design of ballot format, to accommodate different voting
systems.

     Your Committee made non-substantive changes to conform with
standard legislative drafting style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2670, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No.
2670, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.


 
 
 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary &
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair