The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-12
HOW ELECTIONS ARFHLD
WHAT THE TERRITORIAL BILL
PROVIDES.
Some Changes in the Machinery Of
Elections-Australian Ballot is Pre-
served--New Boards of Registration.

The methods of holding elections un-
der the territorial government will be
much the same as they have been un~
der the Republic.
Section ga of the Territorial Act pro-
vides for the method by Indicating the
changes to be made in the regulations
in force under the Republic. Making
the changes indicated the method will
be as follows:
The governor shall divide the repre-
sentative and senatorial districts into
suitable sized voting precincts with one
polling place in each precinct, but no
changes in precinct boundaries shall be
made within sixty days of an election.
! Every person entitled to vote shall reg
lister in the precinct in which he 1e-
| Sides If he has residences in more than
one precinct he may elect which one he
will register in. There shall be five
boards of registry as at present. But
the present boards are abolished and
! the governor shall appoint new ones,
each consisting of three members, to
serve for four years. These boards
shall meet as many times as shall be
necessary between August 81 and Oc-
| tQber 10, 1900 and every second year
| thereafter, and register all persons en-
| titled to register. Electors must per-
sonally appear before the boards of
! registration in order to be registered.
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as to their qualifications to vote. But
having once passed an examination as
| to his ability to read and write
| English or Hawaiian the electoT
shall not be submitted to a second eX-
animation. The boards have power to
summon witnesses, but have not power
to commit for trial for perjury. ANY
elector has the right. to challenge the
eligibility of any person to registration
and to examine witnesses, and cross
examine the person challenged. II
registration is refused to any person
he may within ten days appeal to the
Supreme court. And any elector may
in like manner appeal to the Supreme
court to have the name of any other
person stricken from the registry. But
pending a decision in this case the
name shall remain on the registry.
The time and place of meetings OF
the board shall be duly advertised in
the English and Hawaiian languages
All work of the boards shall be done
in open public meeting. The register
of voters shall consist of a list of tn,
names of the persons registered arrang
ed alphabetically by precincts. Fou
copies of these shall be prepared, thre,
to be posted in public and frequentc
places in each precinct, and the fou, Il
shall be sent to the chairman of tht
inspectors of elections.
The governor shall give notice o.
elections by proclamation issued forty
days before an election is to be held
For the rest, the manner of nominal
ing candidates so as to get their names
on the official ballot remains the SAM
as at present, except that all matteT
pertaining to the calling of a specia
election or to the announcement of
general one, is in the hands of the gov
ernor, instead of in the hands of tn
minister of interior, and all matter
pertaining to the keeping of the record
of elections, the final canvas and tn
certification of persons elected, is in tn
hands of the secretary of the interior
' instead of the minister of interior tn
z payment of the expenses of holding
elections is in the hands of the treas
) urer of the Territory, and the dutie
heretofore performed by the marsha
t the sheriffs and the deputy sherifrs
shall be performed by the high sherii
and his deputies.
The Australian ballot system is pre-
= served, and practically all the method
= of securing honesty and fairness in tn
conduct of elections.