Voting deadlines

[Linkmeister]

From the City and State election sites:

State http://www.hawaii.gov/elections/

Primary Election
Voter Registration Deadline
Thursday, August 19, 2004

General Election
Voter Registration Deadline
Monday, October 4, 2004

City http://www.hawaii.gov/elections/facts/fsbo100e.pdf

PRIMARY
ELECTION
Voter Registration Deadline
August 19, 2004

Absentee Ballot General Election
Request Deadline
Sept. 3, 2004

Absentee Ballot Primary Election
Request Deadline
Sept. 11, 2004

Absentee Vote Primary Walk-in Poll Deadline
Sept. 16, 2004

GENERAL ELECTION
Voter Registration Deadline
October 4, 2004


GENERAL ELECTION
Absentee Ballot Request Deadline
October 26, 2004

Absentee Vote General Walk-in Poll Deadline
October 30, 2004

[pzarquon]

Voting by mail is the way to go!

You can get the form to request absentee ballots online (http://www.hawaii.gov/elections/voteab.html) (in PDF format). If you picked up the form in person somewhere, make sure you've got a complete one. Apparently an important option is missing (http://www.hawaiistories.com/archives/005975.shtml) on some of the hardcopy versions out there.

[kamlost]

Voting from mail must be dodgy though. Is everyone voting?

[pzarquon]

Dodgy? How so? I suppose mail can get lost, but on the whole, I like things on paper. Messing with a thousand hardcopy ballots is a lot harder than adding a zero to a computer file. I'm glad most folks who live in municipalities forging ahead with unproven, untested "touch screen" voting machines have it as an option, at least.

It's catching on, too:

More state voters seek absentee ballots (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Aug/30/ln/ln08a.html)
Gordon Y.K. Pang, Honolulu Advertiser, August 30, 2004
On O'ahu, the city clerk's office has received roughly 32,500 requests from O'ahu voters for absentee ballots to vote by mail in the primary election, according to Glen Takahashi, the city's elections administrator. That exceeds the 32,000 requests for the 2002 primary, Takahashi said, and there's nearly three weeks to go before the Sept. 18 primary. I requested absentee ballots last week. (You have until Sept. 11.) Anyone know when they actually go out? Close to that date, I guess, if the primary is Sept. 18...