Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No. 106 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require a recount of votes in an election if the vote margin is within one percentage point.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from The League of Women Voters of Hawaii and Common Cause Hawaii. The Office of Elections submitted comments.

This measure requires that a vote recount be made if the plurality of an elected candidate over the vote for a defeated candidate receiving the next highest number of votes is less than a vote equivalent to one percentage point of the total number of votes cast for the office.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 106 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.