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Elections commission PIG report finds no credible evidence of Big Island ballot discrepancy; public demands records
Summary
A permitted-interaction-group report read at the Elections Commission concluded there is "no credible evidence" of a large Big Island ballot discrepancy, but public testimony and several commissioners demanded additional records — including USPS receipts, daily envelope counts and photographic evidence of envelopes.
A permitted-interaction-group (PIG) report presented to the Hawaii Elections Commission found "no credible evidence exists to support the claim of a significant discrepancy in the Big Island general election totals," the report's author said during a lengthy online meeting. Commissioner Jeffrey Osterkamp, who read the PIG's 99-page document, explained that the state's reconciliation uses the statewide voter registration system (SVRS) and that USPS Business Reply Mail (BRM) receipts are incomplete and were never intended as an authoritative ballot-counting tool.
The PIG presentation gave specific figures: the state reported 76,595 mail-in ballots for the Big Island in the 2024 general election and the county's envelope tally was 76,587 — a difference of eight ballots. The PIG contrasted those numbers with BRM totals circulated by Commissioner Ralph…
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