Bill Text: HI SB679 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Primary Elections
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB679 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB679-Introduced.html
Report Title:
Primary Elections
Description:
Requires eligible voters in primary election to declare a party preference or nonpartisanship. Effective upon passage of related constitutional amendment.
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 12-31, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§12-31 Selection of party ballot;
voting. [No person eligible to vote in any primary or special primary
election] Every voter shall be required to state a party preference
or [nonpartisanship] nonmembership as a condition of voting[.]
in a primary or special primary election. [Each voter shall be
issued the primary or special primary ballot for each party and the nonpartisan
primary or special primary ballot. A voter shall be entitled to vote only for
candidates of one party or only for nonpartisan candidates. If the primary or special
primary ballot is marked contrary to this paragraph, the ballot shall not be
counted.
In any primary or special primary election
in the year 1979 and thereafter, a voter shall be entitled to select and to
vote the ballot of any one party or nonpartisan, regardless of which ballot the
voter voted in any preceding primary or special primary election.] A
voter who declares membership in a political party shall be issued a primary or
special primary ballot for that party only. A voter who declares nonmembership
shall be issued the primary or special primary ballot for each political party
and also the nonpartisan ballot for that election.
A voter shall declare the voter's membership in a political party or nonmembership in each primary or special primary election."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon the adoption by voters of a constitutional amendment proposing to amend article II, section 4, of the Hawaii state constitution to provide for a closed primary or closed special primary election.
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