Troubling story out of Hawaii, hat tip to Charles Stewart for flagging this:
The next meeting of the Hawaiʻi Elections Commission on Wednesday is expected to be dominated by recent findings of discrepancies in the number of drop box and mail-in ballots cast on Kauaʻi during the 2024 general election.
That the state’s official count of those ballots exceeded the number that the county said it collected and submitted is not in dispute.
But accounts of just how great that discrepancy was vary — a lot.
The numbers range from 25 according to the state’s chief elections officer to 39 according to the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to 661 according to an Elections Commission permitted interaction group and up to 3,772 based on the initial Kauaʻi County ballot envelope count.
Civil Beat has reviewed the tranche of public records, correspondence and court submissions and confirmed there were inconsistencies that raise questions about the management of mail-in ballots in Hawaiʻi.
However, gaps in the chain of custody records during the county’s ballot collection all the way through the state’s counting make it impossible to say with certainty who’s right about how big the difference really was.
Hawaii's difficulties reconciling mail ballots in the 2024 election will undermine confidence in mail-balloting nationwide and illustrate the reality that a skeptical world is watching. Jen Morrell has good quotes in this article. I hope this leads to serious reforms.…