Hawai'i Supreme Court may rule on 2024 election question
Questions about whether the 2024 state elections were invalid may go to the state Supreme Court.
Three people — Ralph Cushnie, a member of the Hawai‘i Elections Commission, Tara Malia Gregory, a candidate for the Honolulu City Council, and resident Douglas Pasnik — filed last week a petition requesting the Hawai‘i Supreme Court to compel election officials to properly account for 2024 ballot data before the 2026 election is certified.
Cushnie has argued that Hawai‘i County mishandled ballots during the 2024 election. He has alleged that the county’s own records for the number of mail-in ballots submitted to county dropboxes vary wildly from USPS receipts, indicating a discrepancy of more than 19,000 ballots.
In an election where Mayor Kimo Alameda defeated incumbent Mitch Roth by less than 9,000 votes, that discrepancy could have major consequences.
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