”Before getting too tangle up in analyzing why a record number of people failed to vote in Hawaii’s general election this year [2014] , I offer a one-word answer: Boredom. And when a political diva like me finds an election boring, you know there is a problem. I am normally thrilled by local politics. What about the hundreds of thousands of Hawaii voters who are already registered yet refuse to go to the polls? That’s almost half of the state’s 706,890 registered voters. These people are in the habit of not voting; you could even say they are addicted to not voting. It will be difficult to change their behavior. Projects like “No Vote, No Grumble” are well meaning but silly. Telling a non-voter that it is bad for him to ignore his civic duty to vote is akin to telling an addicted smoker, “Smoking is harmful to your health.” Maybe it would work to poke fun at the non-voters, like current TV commercials that show arrested drunken drivers looking like idiots when they are incarcerated. That might be useless, too, but at least the commercials won’t be boring.” – Denby Fawcett, Common Cause. Published in Honolulu Civil Beat <http: /> [Clarification Supplied] "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt “In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.” - David Foster Wallace

1. STATE OF HAWAII
PRIMARY ELECTION 2016 - AUGUST 13, 2016
STATEWIDE - FINAL SUMMARY REPORT
REGISTRATION AND TURNOUT
TOTAL REGISTRATION 726,940
PRECINCT TURNOUT 96,186 13.2%
ABSENTEE TURNOUT 156,517 21.5%
34.8%TOTAL TURNOUT 252,703
Source: Office of Elections
http://results.elections.hawaii.gov/2016/primary/histatewide.pdf
Analysis
474,237 Individuals who registered to Vote, 65.2%
Chose not to participate in the 2016 State of Hawaii Single Party Primary
If you run the ball, you control the clock.
If you control the clock, you usually control the game.
- Tiki Barber, NY Giants
THE VOTERS “CONTROL THE CLOCK”
THE VOTERS “CONTROL THE GAME”
Important Dates
Voter Registration Deadline: October 10, 2016
Early Walk-In Voting/Late Registration: October 25-November 5, 2016
Mail Ballot Request Deadline: November 1, 2016
General Election: November 8, 2016