#2020 election

Midway through Election Day 2020, the lines have been consistently long but manageable at Maui’s Voting Service Center, located at the Velma McWayne Santos Community Center in Wailuku. It’s not too late to vote, but you must be in line by 7 pm today.

Election Day is less than two weeks away. And, for the first time in a general election, Hawaiʻi is using all-mail balloting. In Maui County, County Clerk Kathy Kaohu said voting is going “smoothly” so far with 27,350 of the 96,882 active registered voters (28.23 percent) already casting their ballots.

US Senators Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) led 29 of their colleagues in a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor urging them to take immediate action to provide Personal Protective Equipment and sanitizing supplies for election and poll workers—and voters—ahead of the November 2020 election.

The deadline for candidates to file their nomination paper to appear on the 2020 Election ballot is Tuesday, June 2, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. 

Today, West Maui’s Councilmember Tamara Paltin, filed nomination papers to run for her second two year term on the Maui County Council. She is among a list of council candidates that have either pulled papers or filed for candidacy since the filing period opened on Feb. 3. 

Kaohu and Krueger assume the leadership roles in the clerk’s office in an election year that will feature for the first time elections by mail, with the primary election on Aug. 8 and general election on Nov. 3, 2020.

The Office of Elections and the County Clerks of Hawaiʻi have sent out postcards to voters confirming their voter registration and announcing the transition to voting by mail beginning with the 2020 Elections.