Maui Election

Kealiʻi Makekau is a candidate for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, No Residency Required seat. Makeakau is among a list of 16 individuals identified as candidates in the race on the 2014 ballot.

Gladys Coelho Baisa is a candidate for the Maui County Council, Upcountry seat. She is among a list of 2 individuals identified as candidates on the 2014 ballot. The complete list of candidates includes: Gladys Coelho Baisa and Courtney A. Bruch.

John Roco is a candidate for the US Senate in the State of Hawaiʻi. He is a republican candidate, and is among a list of 10 individuals identified as candidates on the 2014 primary election ballot.

Kawika Crowley is a candidate for the US Congressional District 2 seat for the State of Hawaiʻi. He is a republican candidate, and is among a list of four individuals identified as candidates on the 2014 primary election ballot.

Arturo Pacheco Reyes is a candidate for the US Senate in the State of Hawaiʻi. He is a non-partisan candidate, and is among a list of 10 individuals identified as candidates in the race.

The incident was reported on Wednesday morning with the arrest portion captured on video tape by a bystander.

Walk-in absentee voting for the primary election begins in Maui County on Monday, July 28, 2014, and continues until Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.

The 49-year-old was located at the Seabury Hall campus on Olinda Road, where he was placed under arrest for allegedly violating conditions of release on bail, police said.

AARP Hawaii will sponsor a gubernatorial debate between Governor Neil Abercrombie and state Senator David Ige at the Maui Beach Hotel in Kahului on Friday, July 18.

The last day to register to vote in the primary election is Thursday, July 10, 2014. During the 2012 primary election, there were a total of 84,042 individuals registered to vote in Maui County. Of that number, only 30.6% or 25,702 individuals actually voted.

The new law is designed to reform elections in Hawaiʻi by allowing voter registration at early-voting locations in 2016, and at all Election Day polling sites in 2018.

The Sierra Club announced its Hawaiʻi endorsements of more than 40 candidates running for election in the upcoming 2014 primary election on August 9.

The state elections office released an uncertified list of candidates running in the 2014 election after the filing deadline passed on Tuesday afternoon. The list features several familiar faces and former elected officials.

Lieutenant Governor Shan Tsutsui of Maui made his candidacy official by filing his nomination papers at the state Office of Elections in Honolulu, and kicking off his campaign with a sign waving event on South Beretania Street on Thursday afternoon.

Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa officially entered the 2014 mayor’s race by filing his nomination papers seeking re-election for another term on Friday morning.

Hawaiʻi voters will soon have the opportunity to register to vote at early voting sites and polling places, under a measure that gained final passage in the Hawaiʻi Legislature.

Governor Neil Abercrombie and former governor John Waiheʻe will headline a Democrat lūʻau fundraiser hosted by the Maui County Democratic Party at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 3, 2014, at the Pu’u Kukui Elementary School Dining Room in Wailuku.

House Bill 2590 would allow voter registration at absentee polling places beginning in 2016; and late voter registration, including on election day, beginning in 2018.

Currently, there are no early walk-in voting sites on the island of Lānaʻi. The only walk-in locations in the county in the past election cycle were at the Kalana O Maui Building in Wailuku, and the Mitchell Pauole Center on the Island of Molokaʻi.

A total of 24 Maui residents have pulled papers for the upcoming 2014 elections since the candidate filing period began on Feb. 3.