Posted at 7:02 p.m., Thursday, April 26, 2007
Absentee ballots delay teachers contract vote results
Advertiser Staff
The Hawai'i State Teachers Association will have to wait for 1,900 outstanding absentee ballots to be turned in before knowing whether state teachers will have a new contract that calls for pay raises and random drug testing.Some 60 percent of teachers — or nearly 8,000 people — cast ballots at 25 polling places on all islands this afternoon.
But the number of outstanding ballots "could sway the outcome of the vote," said the union's president, Roger Takabayashi.
Teachers have until Wednesday to turn in their absentee ballots.
