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"Election" shall have the same meaning as defined in HRS section 11-1. "Official observer" means an individual designated by the chief elections officer of the state or the county clerk to observe the election process in the counting center. "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 for all federal, state, and county, primary, general, and special elections based on the State of Oregon Vote By Mail program for the State of Hawaii as the exclusive method for casting ballots in the State of Hawaii beginning with the 2016 Primary election and all other elections in future years. (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 State 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 drop -sites throughout the counties to equal one drop - site for approximately 40,000 registered voters. (The total number of dropsites, including the offices of elections, shall be the approximate number of registered voters divided by 40,000.) 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 non-forwardable 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; 3