Report Title:
Voting; Ballot Selection
Description:
Requires names of candidates to be printed on a single ballot. Allows voter to vote for candidates of more than one party.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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1932 |
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TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2007 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 12-21, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§12-21 Official party ballots. (a)
The primary or special primary ballot shall be clearly designated as such. The
names of the candidates of each party qualifying under section 11-61 or 11-62
and of nonpartisan candidates [may] shall be printed on [separate
ballots, or on] a single ballot. The name of each party and the
nonpartisan designation shall be distinctly printed and sufficiently separate
from each other. The names of all candidates shall be printed on the ballot as
provided in section 11-115. When the names of all candidates of the same party
for the same office exceed the maximum number of voting positions on a single
side of a ballot card, the excess names may be arranged and listed on both
sides of the ballot card and additional ballot cards if necessary. [When
separate ballots for each party are not used, the] The order in
which parties appear on the ballot, including nonpartisan, shall be determined
by lot.
(b) The chief election officer or the county clerk, in the case of county elections, shall approve printed samples or proofs of the respective party ballots as to uniformity of size, weight, shape, and thickness prior to final printing of the official ballots."
SECTION 2. Section 12-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§12-31 Selection of party ballot;
voting. No person eligible to vote in any primary or special primary
election shall be required to state a party preference or nonpartisanship as a
condition of voting. Each voter shall be issued the primary or special primary
ballot [for each party and the nonpartisan primary or special primary ballot].
A voter shall be entitled to vote [only] for candidates of [one] any
party or [only] for nonpartisan candidates. [If the primary or
special primary ballot is marked contrary to this paragraph, the ballot shall
not be counted.
In any primary or special primary election
in the year 1979 and thereafter, a voter shall be entitled to select and to
vote the ballot of any one party or nonpartisan, regardless of which ballot the
voter voted in any preceding primary or special primary election.]"
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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