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Hawaii Election Vote Recount Amendment (2020)
| Hawaii Election Vote Recount Amendment | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The Hawaii Election Vote Recount Amendment was not on the ballot in Hawaii as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 3, 2020.
Measure design
The measure would have amended the state constitution to allow the legislature to create laws governing the process for a recount of votes cast in an election.[1]
Text of measure
Constitutional changes
- See also: Article II, Hawaii Constitution
The measure would have added a new section to Article II of the state constitution. The following underlined text would have been added:[1]
Section __. A recount of votes cast in an election may be conducted in such manner as shall be provided by law.[2]
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the Hawaii Constitution
The state process
The Hawaii State Legislature can put a proposed amendment on the ballot upon either a two-thirds majority vote in both chambers of the legislature in the same session or two simple majority votes in both chambers held in two successive sessions. Constitutional amendments must be approved by a majority of the votes cast for the question, as long as the majority also is at least 50 percent of the total votes cast in the entire election. For measures approved at special elections by a majority of votes cast for the question, the majority must be at least 30 percent of the total number of registered voters in the state at the time. The state legislative session ran from January 16 through May 2, 2019, during which time the legislature was able to place legislatively referred constitutional amendments on the ballot. The legislature can also refer amendments to the 2020 ballot during the 2020 legislative session.
2019 legislative session
This amendment was introduced as House Bill 709 on January 18, 2019. The measure was passed unanimously in the House on March 1, 2019, with one representative, Lynn DeCoite (D-13), excused. The Senate unanimously passed an amended version (SD 1) of the measure on April 9, 2019, but the House disagreed with the Senate's amendments, so ultimately the measure did not pass in final form in the legislature before it adjourned its 2019 session. It was carried over to the 2020 legislative session and was not passed before the legislature adjourned on July 10, 2020.[1]
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See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hawaii Legislature, "House Bill 709," accessed March 5, 2019
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source.
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