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Commission asks counties for ballot chain-of-custody records and urges bipartisan task force to fix election rules
Summary
After extended public comment about missing chain-of-custody records and audit practices, the Elections Commission voted to request counties’ chain-of-custody documentation and voted to recommend that the legislature create a bipartisan task force to address election-rule conflicts.
Following extensive public testimony raising chain-of-custody, signature-verification and audit concerns, the Elections Commission voted to request county-level chain-of-custody documentation and recommended that the Legislature establish a bipartisan task force to consider reforms.
Why it matters: The request aims to gather the forms and records that document how ballots moved from drop boxes and postal collection to county custody and from counties to the state counting center. Commission members and public witnesses said those forms are required under administrative rules (HAR 3-177-453) and are the primary record for reconciling counted ballots with physically collected ballots.
Public testimony was strongly critical and specific. Testifier Nolan Chang said counties did not follow chain-of-custody rules and listed several administrative…
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