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Election officials expect to have over five hundred thousand ballots to count if 2020 turnout numbers hold
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Ariana Marmolejo
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Election Day Is Already Over For Almost 80,000 Hawaii Voters
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Time is running out to resolve rail audit
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The ConCon’s Real Price Tag? That’s Still A Mystery
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Common Cause Hawaii Welcomes Tony Donnes to the Board
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Constitutional amendment controversy
KHON2 partnered with Common Cause Hawaii Tuesday for a special live forum on the constitutional amendment, or con am, for an education surcharge. The forum was streamed live from the Box Jelly coworking space in Kakaako.
Voters will decide in November whether to approve a constitutional amendment allowing for a property tax surcharge dedicated to school funding. The question will say:
"Shall the legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support...
Voters will decide in November whether to approve a constitutional amendment allowing for a property tax surcharge dedicated to school funding. The question will say:
"Shall the legislature be authorized to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on investment real property to be used to support...
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Editorial: Stop practice of ‘gut and replace’
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Get Rid Of ‘Gut And Replace’ Legislating
Making radical changes to bills at the Hawaii Legislature denies the public its essential role in the legislative process.
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Good Government Groups Challenge Constitutionality of New Law
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Nonprofits Sue Hawaii Over ‘Deceptive’ Gut-And-Replace Legislative Practice
Common Cause and League of Women Voters are putting legal pressure on the Legislature to improve transparency in the state’s lawmaking process.
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Groups sue to stop ‘gut and replace’ at Hawaii Legislature
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Should Hawaii Convert To Ranked Choice Voting?
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Early-voting trends weigh on future of all-mail ballots