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Commission deadlocks on DOJ referral as public demands audit, envelope counts and removal of elections director
Summary
After hours of public testimony and a PIG readout alleging gaps in chain-of-custody records and a ~19,000-ballot discrepancy for Hawaii County, the Elections Commission rejected a motion to refer the matter to the U.S. Department of Justice and instead voted to formally record that required accounting records were not provided for the 2024 general election.
Public testimony at the April 1 Elections Commission meeting pressed commissioners to order a hand count of Hawaii County ballot return envelopes, to obtain USPS business-reply-mail receipts and to consider removing Chief Elections Officer Scott Nago. The meeting’s PIG (permitted interaction group) readout identified inconsistent or missing daily accounting and chain-of-custody records and highlighted a sizable gap between county-reported envelopes and state-reported ballots for Hawaii County.
A motion to refer the audit to the U.S. Department of Justice was debated and failed on a roll call vote after commissioners split on whether to…
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