Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 3 - DEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING AND GENERAL SERVICES › Office of Elections › Chapter 177 - RULES OF THE OFFICE OF ELECTIONS › Subchapter 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 3-177-57 - Districts, precincts, polling places, and ballot types

Current through June, 2024
(a)
				  "District" means, unless otherwise specified, the district of political
				  representation with the fewest eligible voters in a particular election. The
				  use of the general term "district," without reference to a specific office,
				  such as council member district, state representative district, state
				  senatorial district, or U.S. Representative District, shall be comparable to
				  the prior utilization of the term "precinct" or "district precinct" before the
				  enactment of elections by mail. Specifically, election administrators may
				  account for the intersecting boundaries associated with different offices or
				  jurisdictions to establish the "districts" that will be used for administrative
				  and reporting purposes. Similarly, election administrators may take into
				  account historical reporting of results by specific regions or communities in
				  establishing the "districts" that will be used for administrative and reporting
				  purposes.
(b) To the extent a
				  statute continues to refer to a "precinct," unless the context indicates
				  otherwise, it will be understood to have the same definition as a district in
				  subsection (a).
(c) In terms of
				  identifying a district used for administrative or reporting purposes a two-part
				  naming, convention may be used. For example, a district may be represented with
				  a hyphen, dash, or. forward slash between a. state representative district
				  number and the administrative district within it, to facilitate identifying the
				  boundaries of the district in relation to the larger boundaries of intersecting
				  offices or jurisdictions (e.g., DP 07-01 or DP 07/01). Otherwise, a different
				  naming convention may be used, so long as there is on file a description of the
				  boundaries of the district. No changes to any such district boundaries shall be
				  made later than 4:30 p.m. on the tenth day before the close of filing for an
				  election.
(d) "Polling place,"
				  "polls,", or "pollbooks", unless the context indicates otherwise, refers to a
				  voter service center or something in connection with a voter service
				  center.
(e) "Ballot type" unless
				  the context indicates otherwise, means the unique ballot containing the
				  contests, question, or issues of the voters of a specific district. The ballot
				  type associated with one district may contain the same contests, question, or
				  issues associated with a different ballot type to be used by the voters of a
				  different district, with the only difference being the administrative
				  identification of a ballot type.
(f) Election officials may accommodate other
				  ballot types, as may be necessary, including the distinction between ballots
				  cast at voter service centers, ones associated with ballot packages, those
				  associated with electronic, transmission, categories of voters required by
				  state or federal law to have a particular type of ballot, and any other
				  category that facilitates the reporting of results or the inventory control of
				  ballots.
(g) A particular ballot
				  type associated with a district or category of voter may be used for different
				  district or category of voter, if the contests, questions, and issues are the
				  same. To the extent there are differences, they will be addressed by the
				  counting center officials, pursuant to HAR § 3-177-759.