Bill Text: HI HB27 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Elections; Marked Ballot; Electronic or Digital Images
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-06-22 - Act 081, 06/21/2016 (Gov. Msg. No. 1182). [HB27 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2016-HB27-Introduced.html
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to elections.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 11-137, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§11-137 Secrecy; removal or
exhibition of ballot. No person shall look at or ask to see the contents
of the ballot or the choice of party or nonpartisan ballot of any voter, except
as provided in [section] sections 11-139 and 11-132, nor shall
any person within the polling place attempt to influence a voter in regard to
whom the voter shall vote for. When a voter is in the voting booth for the
purpose of voting, no other person, except as provided in [section] sections
11-139 and 11-132, shall be allowed to enter the booth or to be in a position
from which the person can observe how the voter votes.
No person shall take a ballot out of the
polling place except as provided in sections 11-135 and 11-139. After voting
the voter shall leave the voting booth and deliver the voter's ballot to the
precinct official in charge of the ballot boxes. The precinct official shall
make certain that the precinct official has received the correct ballot and no
other and then shall deposit the ballot into the ballot box. No person shall
look at or ask to see the contents of the unvoted ballots. If any person
having received a ballot leaves the polling place without first delivering the
ballot to the precinct official as provided above[, or wilfully exhibits the
person's ballot or the person's unvoted ballots in a special primary or primary
election], except as provided in [section] sections 11-139
and 11-132, [after the ballot has been marked,] the person shall forfeit
the person's right to vote, and the chairperson of the precinct officials shall
cause a record to be made of the proceeding."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
Elections; Ballot Secrecy
Description:
Repeals the prohibition against willfully exhibiting one's own ballot.
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