Report Title:

Elections; Voter Registration

Description:

Authorizes voter registration on the day of an election.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

204

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to voter registration.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 11-24, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§11-24 Closing register; list of voters. (a) At 4:30 p.m. on the [thirtieth day prior to] day of each primary, special primary, or special election [(but if the day is a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday then at 4:30 p.m. on the first working day immediately thereafter)], the general county register shall be closed to registration for persons seeking to vote at the primary, special primary, or special election and remain closed to registration until after the election, subject to change only as provided in sections 11-21(c), 11-22, 11-25, 11-26, and this section.

(b) Notwithstanding the closing of the register for registration to vote at the primary or special primary election, the register shall remain open for the registration of persons seeking to vote at the general or special general election, until 4:30 p.m. on the [thirtieth day prior to] day of the general or special general election [(but if the day is a Saturday, Sunday, or holiday then at 4:30 p.m. on the first working day immediately thereafter)], at the end of which period the general county register shall be closed to registration and remain closed until after the general or special general election next following, subject to change only as provided in sections 11-21(c), 11-22, 11-25, and 11-26.

(c) [Immediately upon the closing of the general county register,] Thirty days prior to the closing of the county general register, the clerk shall [proceed to] prepare a list of all registered voters in each precinct[,] who registered at least thirty days prior to the date of the election, separately. The list shall contain, in alphabetical order, without designation of the race or age of voters, the names of all voters so registered in each precinct, and the residence of each unless such residence is deemed confidential pursuant to section 11-14.5. The list shall be available for inspection at the office of the county clerk prior to election day. On election day the precinct officials shall post the list at the precinct polling place. During the thirty days immediately preceding the election, the clerk shall supplement the list each day by inserting the names of persons registering to vote after the list was prepared."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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