(a) The clerk, after every general election, shall remove the names of registered voters who were identified as having an outdated or undeliverable address who did not vote in all elections held during the two previous federal election cycles with the exception of anyone who preregistered pursuant to section 11-12(b). For this purpose, “vote” means the depositing of the ballot in the ballot box regardless of whether the ballot is blank or later rejected for any reason. In the case of voting machines, “vote” means the voter has activated the proper mechanism and fed the ballot into the machine. In the case of an election by mail pursuant to part VIIA, “vote” means the voter has returned the ballot to the chief election officer or clerk by the United States Postal Service, by personal delivery of the ballot to a place of deposit or voter service center, or by electronic transmission under certain circumstances pursuant to part VIIA.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-17

  • Ballot: includes :

    (1) A ballot summary reflecting a complete record of the ballot selections made by a voter utilizing an HTML ballot or similar accessible ballot that produces a ballot summary;

    (2) A voter verifiable paper audit trail in the event there is a discrepancy between a voting machine's electronic record of the voted ballot and the voter verifiable paper audit trail; and

    (3) A ballot used in an election by mail pursuant to part VIIA, including a ballot approved for electronic transmission. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1

  • Electronic transmission: means the transmission of a blank or voted ballot by facsimile or electronic mail delivery, or the use of an online absentee ballot delivery and return system, which may include the ability to mark the ballot. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Place of deposit: means a site within the county of the voter's registration address designated pursuant to section 11-109 for the purpose of receiving return identification envelopes in an election conducted by mail pursuant to part VIIA. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1
  • Voter service center: means a location within the county of the voter's registration address established pursuant to section 11-109 to serve all of the following purposes:

    (1) Receive return envelopes for absentee ballots pursuant to chapter 15;

    (2) Receive return identification envelopes in an election by mail conducted pursuant to part VIIA;

    (3) Provide voting machine services for persons with disabilities pursuant to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 11-1

(b) Before removal as noted in subsection (a), the clerk shall identify registered voter names from a postal database containing outdated or undeliverable addresses or by mailing a notice or other correspondence, properly addressed, and receiving a postal notation that the notice or other correspondence was not deliverable.
(c) Upon identification of names of registered voters as prescribed in subsection (b), the clerk shall conduct any notification mailings as required by applicable federal law.
(d) The clerk may also remove the name of any registered voter, if the voter so desires and properly notifies the clerk pursuant to the procedures established by the chief election officer.
(e) Any person whose name has been removed from the register may have that person’s name restored in the register by presenting oneself to the clerk and reregistering pursuant to § 11-15, or by making application by mail or otherwise pursuant to procedures established by the clerk. The clerk shall require satisfactory evidence to establish the identity of the applicant. The names of all those persons shall be reentered in the register.

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