STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2336

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2671
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred S.B. No.
2671 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE OFFICE OF
     ELECTIONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make an unspecified
appropriation for the office of elections to use for voter
education.

     Your Committee finds that since 1998, there have been
changes to the voting system and technology to be used at the
polling place and to the form of the election ballots themselves.
Your Committee further finds that this measure will improve the
efficiency and quality of the next election, by familiarizing
voters with the new system and ballot before the next election
day.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the
Office of Elections and the League of Women Voters.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2671 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred
to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Judiciary,



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                                   AVERY B. CHUMBLEY, Co-Chair



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                                   MATTHEW M. MATSUNAGA, Co-Chair

 
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