On Thursday, April 23, Hawaii finished holding its first all-mail ballot election. See this story. The election was to fill a vacant seat in the Honolulu city council.
Less cash for poll workers on election days — waiting for voters to show up — especially LOW- LOW turnouts in vacancy elections (which should NOT be happening).
Legislator candidates and incumbents should have a rank order list of replacements.
Temporary appointed replacements for executive/judicial offices.
Hm. If the ballot is mailed to voters and assuming that they have a generous amount of time to vote and mail it back in, wouldn’t that undermine some of the harsh ballot access argument about voter confusion and chaos?
I mean, if you are getting the ballot in the mail, have a week or more to look at it, and then mail it back….
April 27th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
This is something very unique. I’ve never heard of such a thing being done before, but now I know.
April 27th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Oregon survives with ALL MAIL ballots.
More cash for the U.S. Postal Snail.
Less cash for poll workers on election days — waiting for voters to show up — especially LOW- LOW turnouts in vacancy elections (which should NOT be happening).
Legislator candidates and incumbents should have a rank order list of replacements.
Temporary appointed replacements for executive/judicial offices.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Hm. If the ballot is mailed to voters and assuming that they have a generous amount of time to vote and mail it back in, wouldn’t that undermine some of the harsh ballot access argument about voter confusion and chaos?
I mean, if you are getting the ballot in the mail, have a week or more to look at it, and then mail it back….