LIHU‘E — There are only two weeks remaining before primary election day, and the County of Kaua‘i Office of the County Clerk Elections Division opened its Primary Election Voter Service Center Monday in the Historic County Building Annex on Rice Street in Lihu‘e.
The VSC, features a drive-up ballot drop box, offers accessible, in-person voting and same-day voter registration.
According to information from the county, accessible in-person voting and same-day registration services are only for voters who have not yet returned a voted mail ballot, or for unregistered individuals wishing to register and vote.
Voting can be done either on a paper ballot that is printed out once information is verified, or through the electronic voting machine.
For health and safety reasons due to COVID-19, paper-ballot voting is done in a cardboard privacy booth, the traditional red-white-and-blue curtain being eliminated during the pandemic.
Voters utilizing the VSC services are also recommended to wear masks covering noses and mouths, as well as maintain a six-foot separation from nearby individuals.
Voters at the VSC may experience longer-than-desired wait times. Additionally, any voter in line at the time of closing will be allowed to vote.
The VSC is open from now through Aug. 12 except Sundays. Hours Monday through Saturday are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The VSC will also be open on primary election day, Saturday, Aug. 13, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
w Info: Elections Division, 808-241-4800
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Dennis Fujimoto, staff writer and photographer, can be reached at 245-0453 or dfujimoto@thegardenisland.com.
Well I sized up the possible voters on Kaua’i. It looks as if only a few but majority of the few and lame will be voting for a sports background again. Not the real players. Democrats, conservatives and bias. Inconsequential. Again in this election.
I can say it here. Sports: super media attention getter. This election again. I’m not for the local government. My vote goes to the rich boys in town. The millionaires. The people who don’t care to vote. Because they’re better off than the government. People like Rick Caruso of California. Who owns several shopping malls. USC graduate. MBA
I just might vote for Green. Josh Green. governor. Kai actually was a pilot. Hardly any brain cells to his tenure in office. U.S. Congress House of Representatives, maybe. I don’t know yet. Jill Tokuda. Lt. Governor? Tough choice. I don’t know yet.
Districts: well you decide if they’re crooks. State House and State senate under the Hope Chest constitution have no extensions to it, Oahu only. But they make room for leftovers like Kaua’i. Districts.
You can vote for whoever you like. But if you put these candidates in again, nothing will happen. Kawakami, Kouchi, Carvalho, Decosta, and I think Ray mentioned few others. Then who? All of them are unknown, until they’re elected. But by then it’s too late. Stuck. $12 million dollars for a new Vidhina stadium? Are you kidding. Average cost for a state of the art high school stadium runs in the $750,000,000 million dollars at market value. This is truth.
High school football that’s your main thing here. So $750 million dollars for it and taxed on the community, lost out for high school. Another idea for the community, no way on the high school project. DOE? Athletics are failures. Find something else to work on. CIP
I have a notebook i use to keep track of all the candidates. Some nice handwriting, some scribble barely readable. About every candidate in politics. Like Kai Kahele. All of them. Then i judge if they’re able to afford the iPhone. $1500 dollars for the newest and iPhones for the salaries that these candidates have been stated to make according to tgi news, 2014. Jenna Carpenter.
Then i’ll comment here.