2018-07-06 Hawaii County Clerk Supplementary Proclamation

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WHEREAS, the joint proclamation declared the election in District Precincts 04-03 and 04-04 to be conducted by absentee mail ballot and that absentee ballots would be mailed to all registered voters in the affected precincts sufficiently in advance to permit the voters to return the ballots by 6:00 p.m. on election day; and WHEREAS, it was declared in the joint proclamation that absentee ballots would be mailed during the week of June 25, 2018 and that occurred; and WHEREAS, the joint proclamation stated that election officials must make judgments based on the information available at the time and the unique circumstances of the occasion; and WHEREAS, on July 2, 2018, the Mayor of the County of Hawaii issued a Third Supplementary Emergency Proclamation declaring that a continued state of emergency exists and that certain sections of the Hawaii County Code be suspended. WHEREAS, Chapter 127A, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) and Chapter 7, Articles 1 and 2 of the Hawaii County Code, establishes a Civil Defense Agency within the County of Hawaii and prescribes its powers, duties, and responsibilities; and WHEREAS,%election officials have continued to monitor and asses the developing situation and the Civil Defense Agency's constant updates to the public have been a critical part of that monitoring and assessment; and WHEREAS, the County Civil Defense Administrator has represented to County Election Officials that the current eruption is stable. There continues to be a channelized flow from Fissure 8 to the Kapoho coastline which results in periodic overflows along the channel. No new areas are being threatened. Ground inflation and cracking which resulted in the closure of highway 130 to local traffic only was reopened to the public by the State Department of Transportation on July 3, 2018; and WHEREAS, the County of Hawaii Civil Defense Administrator has represented to County Election Officials that a polling place can currently be operated safely in Pahoa; and WHEREAS, Section 11-15.2, HRS, provides a person who is eligible to vote but is not registered to vote may register by appearing in person on the day of the election, at the polling place in the precinct associated with the person's residence; and WHEREAS, the Attorney General has opined that the previous mailing of absentee ballots does not prevent election officials from continuing to make K