Talk:Hawaii Admission Act

message: The article states: "Out of a total population of 600,000 in the islands and 155,000 registered voters, 140,000 votes were cast..."
Where did that 155,000 statistic come from?
Not only are ALL those statistics remarkably vague and imprecise, especially when the turnout statistic can be calculated using the accompanying JPG showing the results, but that on the face of it they show a significant discrepancy with the State of Hawaii's own statistics for the year 1959, which can be found at:
     http://elections.hawaii.gov/resources/registration-voter-turnout-statistics/
Primary elections 1959: Registered voters: 174,274  Turnout: 147,078.
General elections 1959: Registered voters: 183,118  Turnout: 171,383.
Did people in Hawaii have to re-register for each and every election/plebiscite?
It gets worse. In 1960 there was a census. After that census was over the Census Bureau prepared this document:
     https://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/voting/p25-221.pdf
showing its estimate of the number of people of voting age (which at the time was 21) in all 50 states in 1960.
Check out the stat for Hawaii: 321,000.
That's more than double that 155,000 figure; and significantly above even the two State of Hawaii ones for the territory elections that same year.
Not that Hawaii appears to be alone in that regard. See, for example, the stats in:
     https://www.infoplease.com/history-and-government/us-elections/national-voter-turnout-federal-elections-1960a2014
That in turn affects the boast made in the article: "the highest turnout ever in Hawaii". Whether that claim is true or not I will leave to others to decide, but 140,744 out of 321,000 represents only about 44% of the number of people who COULD have voted. That is NOT exactly a statistic one ought to be boasting about.
122.149.83.102 (talk) 15:15, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Is that registered voters statistic accurate?

message: The claims about the reasons lawmakers were really supporting civil rights for african americans need to be sourced. Claims about the anti-Asian motives of Ms. Campbell need to be reconciled with the claim in the provided source that she is a native Hawaiian. Mrdthree (talk) 21:26, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Editorializing on Motives is unsourced

message: The statehoodhawaii.org webpage makes a bunch of uncited claims and provides no authors WP:USERG. The claims associated with it are editorializing unless published elsewhere WP:OR. http://statehoodhawaii.org/2009/05/12/the-statehood-plebiscite/
Mrdthree (talk) 20:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a reliable source

message: This page lacks an explanation of what the Hawaii Admission Act is and what it did.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AerinZero (talk • contribs) 23:56, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The UN Charter wasn't signed until 26 June 1945, and so is irrelevant with respect to the 1940 plebiscite. By then, Hawaii had been an organized territory of the US for some 42 years. As such, resident US citizens were free to vote, and members of the Armed Forces have typically voted wherever they are billeted when on organized US soil. In any case, Article 73 isn't the most relevant UN document, Resolution 1541 is. By the time it was adopted, Hawaii was already a state.Cmholm (talk) 09:25, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps this discussion should be reorganized under the monarchist movement in hawaii. Mrdthree (talk) 20:49, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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message: I see there's a page Legal status of Hawaii, which seems relevant.  Should this page link to it?  Normally, I'd add a link myself, but I don't know anything about this subject and the alleged controversy. Espertus (talk) 06:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this link to [[Legal status of Hawaii]]?

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