STAND. COM. REP. NO.  772-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2251

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2251 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the county clerk of any county with a population of less than 100,000 to mail an absentee ballot for each primary, special primary, special, general, and special general election to all registered voters on any island of the county that is not contiguous with the island where the county seat of government is located.

The Office of Elections; Office of the County Clerk, County of Maui; Elections Division of the Office of the County Clerk, County of Kauai; and the League of Women Voters submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2251 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair