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<br /> <br /> <br /> ~1MTV Or <br /> Brenda J. Ford P Li %c Phone No.: (808) 326-5684 <br /> Council Member Fax No.: (808) 329-4786 <br /> District 7-Central Kona E-Mail: bford@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> +r~ o~'wi.? <br /> <br /> HAWAII COUNTY COUNCIL <br /> <br /> County of Hawai `i m <br /> Kailua Trade Center %7) O <br /> 75-5706 Hanama Place, Suite 109 Q t-_) r Tj <br /> Kailua-Kona, Hativai'i 96740 L- : J n <br /> <br /> DATE: December 18, 2008 <br /> <br /> TO: J Yoshimoto, Chairman, <br /> and Members of the Hawaii County Council co <br /> <br /> FROM: Brenda J. Ford f~t~Q,O`/ <br /> Council Member " <br /> <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Requesting the Legislature of the State of Hawaii to Enact a Bill to <br /> Establish a Pilot Program for Vote by Mail for all Federal, State and County <br /> Primary, General, and Special Elections in the County of Hawaii, and to Make an <br /> Appropriation for this Pilot Program. <br /> <br /> Attached is a proposed bill (Exhibit A), Absentee Ballot Statistics (Exhibit B), and the current <br /> State of Oregon "Vote By Mail Procedures Manual" (Exhibit C) to be sent to the Hawaii State <br /> Legislature for Vote By Mail (VBM) Pilot Program in Hawaii County. I would like this <br /> communication and these associated exhibits to be placed with the VBM resolution on the <br /> Council agenda for January 7, 2009. <br /> <br /> In 2005, several Senate and House bills were produced at the State level to initiate a state-wide <br /> Vote By Mail program. All of these bills either died or were killed. My proposed bill (Exhibit <br /> A) was designed by using previous Senate Bill (SB) 642 as the basic state legislation for a <br /> Hawaii County VBM Pilot Program. SB 642 contained many of the issues that the Office of <br /> Elections and I decided needed to be addressed in State legislation for the VBM Pilot Program. I <br /> also extracted additional issues from the current State of Oregon "Vote By Mail Procedures <br /> Mannar' (Exhibit Q. In many instances, I took information verbatim from the manual. In other <br /> cases, I adapted the process to meet the needs of the County of Hawaii Office of Elections. In <br /> using information, quotes, and processes from any person or manual, I had previously received <br /> written permission from the Oregon Secretary of State, Bill Bradbury, to use his statements, the <br /> manual, or any other information from the Oregon State website whether verbatim or altered. <br /> Absentee Ballot Statistics (Exhibit B), was compiled from data located on the State of Hawaii `s <br /> Elections website and information provided by the County of Hawaii Office of Elections data on <br /> the 1988-2008 elections. <br /> <br /> <br /> BJF/dkr <br /> Att. <br /> <br /> Serving the Interests of the People of Our /slant/ <br /> Hawaii County Is An Equal Opportunity Provider And Employer <br />