Is There a Diuretic Strong Enough to Treat Hawaii's Bloated Voter Rolls?

Or Is Amputation the Only Way?

I’m still processing Tuesday’s election, but our dirty voter rolls are always Top of Mind.

Statewide Hawaii has an estimated 100,000 (this may be an underestimate) deadweight on the voter rolls. With universal mail-in voting this means everyone “active” on the voter rolls is mailed a ballot. It doesn’t take much to be in the active category. Even dead people can be active on the rolls-canvassing proved that.

Cleaning the voter rolls is #1 on Seth Keshel’s 10 Points to True Election Integrity list. Why #1?

Filthy voter rolls are the roots of the corrupt election fraud tree, and without killing the roots the tree will continue to flourish.

The state doesn’t make it easy to clean the rolls, this is by design. Corrupt voter rolls give the nefarious actor(s) a vast pool of voters to access whenever you need a drop box ballot dump or an early vote frontload. It’s easy to see who hasn’t voted in 20 years and then cast a ballot in their name.

The Elections postcard and USPS NCOA systems don’t work. Mail is only forwarded for 6 months…so if you move more than 6 months before an election cycle the County Clerk won’t get any notification via NCOA.

People toss mail for previous residents all the time, you think those postcards are making it back to the County Clerks?

To be removed, a voter must submit to the county clerk in writing a request for removal. Even this doesn’t always work, I know of cases where residents have made repeated requests to be removed yet they still show up on the rolls.

Canvassing has also shown ballots recorded for addresses where the current resident confirms that “person” never lived there and never received mail addressed to them. These are a category of ghost voters, and we have them in Hawaii.

Here is the Hawaii law outlining the removal of voters by a challenger.

HRS §11-25  Challenge by voters; grounds; procedure.  (a)  Any registered voter may challenge the right of a person to be or to remain registered as a voter in any precinct for any cause not previously decided by the board of registration or the supreme court in respect to the same person.  The challenge shall be in writing, setting forth the grounds upon which it is based, and be signed by the person making the challenge.  The challenge shall be delivered to the clerk who shall immediately serve notice thereof on the person challenged.  The clerk shall, as soon as possible, investigate and rule on the challenge.

So should we gather lists of voters to remove from the rolls and send them to the Board of Registration? Will that do anything? Or be ignored and/or dismissed, or partially successful but the rolls will just fill up again and again, and again.

A previous Hawaii County Clerk brought several challenges to her superiors and was rewarded with retaliation: a smear campaign and losing her job. The corruption runs deep.

Patients with fluid retention (bloating) from kidney disease take oral diuretics, when the disease progresses to the point where the diuretics aren’t strong enough, they go on dialysis 3 times a week for the rest of their lives. Only a kidney transplant can get them back to normal.

We aren’t even at the oral diuretic stage, but the voter roll bloat-disease is so bad we need to go straight to the transplant surgery. We need to toss the rolls completely and start over with in person registration and Voter ID.