The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-10-30
A P|TFAA FOR VOTERS
MISTAKES IN THE REGISTRATION
LISTS.
Names of Men Living in One Precinct
Found on the Register for Another
How Mistakes were Discovered.

Another pitfall has been discovered
which may entrap the unwary voter
1t has been dicovered that in making
UP the lists of registered voters, mis-
takes have been made and some voters
have been listed in the wrong precinct
If these mistakes are not corrected be-
fore election, a voter may go to the
polling place of the precinct where he
lives, with the proud consciousness that
he had done his political duty by regis
tering, and find when he gets there, that
he is not on the list of registered voters
The discovery was made some time
ago when the different party canvassers
began making their rounds. Persons
that were on the lists as being in
particular precinct could not be found
in that precinct, but in some cases they
were found in other precincts. 1t was
supposed at first that these mistakes
were the mistakes of the clerks en-
ployed by the several campaign COM
mittees to transcribe the registration
records. But comparisons with the ori-
ginal records proved that they were not
the mistakes of the clerks but had got
on to the records wrong.
An instance of the kind or error dis
covered is that of Thomas Krouse. He
lives now, and has for years, at the
Arlington Hotel, which is in the 9th
precinct of the 4th district. He is on
the records as in the 5th precinct of the
4th district
AnOLner case is OIL u man WHO lives Ol
Adams Lane. He is on the lists in the
wrong precinct. Another man who
lives on Smith lane in the 4th precinct
is on the lists as being in the 9Th pre-
cinct.
In some cases, two voters living in
the same house, the name of one of
them is on the lists for one precinct
and the name Of the other on the lists
for another precinct
While large number of mistakes of
this kind have been discovered in the
4th district, the number is said to be as
nothing compared to the number in the
5th district. The region just Eva of
Nuuanu stream is full of little lanes
and streets. The names of these are
not widely, nor generally known. In
the haste of registration 1t was easy to
get the exact locality of any particular
one of them confused and put it down
in another precinct than it really is.
The mistakes probably originated In
this way: AS each voter came up to
register he was asked, among other
things, his name and where he lived
These were written down on the regis
tration blank by the registering officers
On one corner of the blank was a space
for the number of the district and the
number of the precinct. The registra.
ton officers having been given the
voters residence by street name, filled
in the number of the precinct and dis
trict from their knowledge of localitie.
and precinct boundaries. In this way
there was always liability to error, anC
the reports of the party canvassers
show that a great many mistakes Of
this kind have been made
AS soon as the official lists of regis
tered voters have been printed and pub
lished, it will be the part of the wist
and prudent registered voter to examIn,
them and see that his name appears OIL
the lists for the correct precinct.
will save a whole lot of trouble anC
chagrin on election day.