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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Wednesday, July 23, 2008

PRIMARY ELECTION
Primary Election 2008 | The candidates

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Voters cast their ballots on primary election day in 2006 at Jefferson Elementary School, one of 353 polling places statewide. Other voters got a jump on election day by casting absentee ballots, either by mail or at walk-in voting sites in operation in the days leading up to the election.

ADVERTISER LIBRARY PHOTO | Sept. 23, 2006

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ELECTION CALENDAR

Aug. 21 — Voter registration deadline for primary election

Sept. 8-18 — Walk-in absentee voting sites open for primary election

Sept. 13 — Deadline to submit application for mail-in absentee ballot for primary election

Sept. 20 — Primary election

Oct. 6 — Voter registration deadline for general election

Oct. 21-Nov. 1 — Walk-in absentee voting sites open for general election

Oct. 28 — Deadline to submit application for mail-in absentee ballot for primary election

Nov. 4 — General election

Voter registration

You are eligible to vote if you are a U.S. citizen, a Hawai'i resident and at least 18 years old.

Registered voters need to re-register if they have moved or changed their name since the last election. Otherwise, they don't need to re-register.

Registration forms may be downloaded from http://hawaii.gov/elections/voters/registration.htm

Forms also also available at public libraries, satellite city halls, post offices and in telephone directories.

Register by Aug. 21 for the primary election and Oct. 6 for the general election.

More information

Contact state or county elections officials:

http://hawaii.gov/elections

State Office of Elections: 453-8683

City and County of

Honolulu: 768-3800

Hawai'i County: 961-8277

Maui County: 270-7749

Kaua'i County: 241-6350

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Here are the candidates who are running in the Sept. 20 Hawai'i primary election. Yesterday was the deadline for people to file candidacy papers.

Voters will vote in party primaries as well as nonpartisan county and Board of Education races.

Incumbents are designated by •.

The general election is Nov. 4. At that time Hawai'i voters will also vote for U.S. president, Office of Hawaiian Affairs candidates and proposed amendments to the state Constitution and the county charters.

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