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"Vote By Mail" means an election conducted exclusively by mail. "Voter" shall have the same meaning as defined in HRS section 11-1. "Voters' Pamphlet" means a printed insert provided by the county clerk that contains a concise, impartial explanation of each question or ballot measure and its major effects, and a single, concise pro and con statement of less than 250 words each. Candidates for elected office are not included in the Voters' Pamphlet. § -2 Vote By Mail; determination. (a) Vote By Mail elections shall be conducted by the chief election officer as a pilot project for all federal, state, and county primary, general, and special elections based on the State of Oregon Vote By Mail program for the County of Hawaii as the exclusive method for casting ballots in the County of Hawaii beginning with the 2010 Primary election and all other elections in the year 2010, all elections in 2012, and continuing through all elections including the General Election in 2014. (b) The chief election officer shall provide notice pursuant to HRS section 1-28.5 no later than sixty days before the election in two daily newspapers in the County of Hawaii, that a Vote By Mail election shall be conducted and the only precincts open on the day of the election shall be the multiple county offices of elections sites. There shall be a dropsite at all of the county office of elections and a minimum of additional dropsites throughout the county to equal one dropsite for approximately 20,000 registered voters. (The total number of dropsites, including the offices of elections, shall be the approximate number of registered voters divided by 20,000.) This information shall also be published and mailed to each voter with the ballot package. (c) The Direct Record Electronic voting machines will be located at the offices of elections sites for use by voters meeting requirements under the Help America Vote Act (NAVA). § -3 Procedures for conducting Vote By Mail. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the county clerk shall mail by nonforwardable mail to each registered voter between thirty- five days and twenty-one days before the date of the election: (1) An official ballot; (2) A return identification envelope that shall be printed with the monetary amount of postage to be applied to the envelope by the voter and a message: "To return ballot by mail, voter must apply $ ._ postage." (A) a bar code containing sufficient voter information from the general county register to identify that voter without opening the envelope. This will allow the county office of elections to match the voter to the general county register and verify that the signature of the voter is authentic; (B) a signature box on the return identification envelope; a written warning near the signature box on the return identification envelope stating: "WARNING! Signing another person's signature to this envelope is class C felony", and an affirmation declaration: "I hereby affirm that I am the registered voter whose name is on the envelope. I am a resident of the precinct and representative EXHIBIT "A-1"