Despite this year’s all-time high number of registered voters — likely due to a new online registration system — Hawaii’s voter turnout rate in the general election was less than for the 2012 presidential election. In the 2012 election, 61.9 percent of 705,668 registered voters cast ballots. That year, Hawaii-born Barack Obama was on the ballot. This year, the turnout was 58.3 percent of 749,917 […]
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