ATVHI Election Integrity Bills Are Coming to the 2024 Legislature
The Hawai'i Republican Caucus is Sponsoring Six ATVHI EI Bills
Election Integrity bills are headed to the Hawai’i Legislature!
Last September, the ATVHI Legislative Action Group delivered to the Hawai’i House Republican caucus a seven bill package bursting with awesome election integrity goodness. Six lucky bills were chosen to be sponsored by the House Republican Caucus. Big Mahalos to the Republican Caucus. Thank you for listening to the people.
The ultimate goal is to restore FULL transparency, trust, and security in our elections by purging the rolls, banning the machines, requiring voter ID and having Election Day, not Season.
For Hawai’i, with universal mail-in elections, no voter ID, and a 51/51 pathetic rank on the Heritage Foundation Election Integrity scorecard, you have to start somewhere.
It took 20 years of slippery-sloping and Democrat law-loosening of secure elections to get to where we are; we cannot expect to reverse this level of election corruption overnight.
The goals of the bills are to chip away at our current election laws, improve security and transparency, and prevent further election corruption (yes, it can get worse-RCV is the prime example).
Here are the bills headed to the legislature:
Abolish Rank Choice Voting
Require observers for signature verification
Require audits to be done with paper ballots, not ballot images
Make several election records public and available online
Prohibit private funding of elections (Zuckerbucks)
Require recounts to be done in a manner that differs from the original count
You can read the full text of all six bills here.
Once we have bill numbers assigned there will be several calls to action:
Committee chairs will need to be contacted and encouraged to give the bills hearings.
Democratic legislators will need to be educated on how the bills help all Hawai’i residents-secure and transparent elections should not be a partisan issue.
For bills that are assigned hearings, we will need written, zoom, and in person testimony. LOTS of it!!!
It’s going to be a busy legislative session. Make sure you have an account for the legislature, you will need it to testify.
I hope you will do your part to help restore transparency and security to Hawai’i’s elections (in other words, get off your okole and stop waiting for other people to fix things).
See you at the Capitol!
