STAND. COM. REP. 573

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 762

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 762 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELECTION HEARINGS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the chief election officer to establish procedures to receive and process complaints about and to investigate alleged voter fraud.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Elections.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing an inadvertent reference to the ombudsman with a reference to the chief election officer.

This measure is consistent with Help America Vote Act of 2002 provisions designed to improve voter fraud investigations.

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 H.B. No. 762, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 762, H.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair