Bill Text: HI HB542 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii House Bill 542 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Vote Count; Blank and Spoiled Ballots

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB542 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB542-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	542
TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

relating to elections.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 11-151, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§11-151 Vote count. Each contest or question on a ballot shall be counted independently as follows:

(1) If the votes cast in a contest or question are equal to or less than the number to be elected or chosen for that contest or question, the votes for that contest or question shall be counted;

(2) If the votes cast in a contest or question exceed the number to be elected or chosen for that contest or question, the votes for that contest or question shall not be counted; and

(3) If a contest or question requires a majority of the votes for passage, any blank, spoiled, or invalid ballot shall not be tallied for passage or as votes cast [~~except that such ballots shall be counted as votes cast in ratification of a constitutional amendment or a question for a constitutional convention~~]."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval and upon ratification of a constitutional amendment requiring the question for a constitutional convention to be determined by votes tallied.

INTRODUCED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title:

Vote Count; Blank and Spoiled Ballots

Description:

Repeals the exception that blank, spoiled, or invalid ballots are counted for passage or as votes cast for ratification of a constitutional amendment or the question whether to convene a constitutional convention.

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