Hawaii’s mail-in voting system works and is here to stay. That message was from several state lawmakers, after the election commission voted to get rid of it, citing a lack of integrity.

In October the Hawaii Elections Commission voted 5-3 to ask the Legislature to rescind the state’s universal mail-in voting system and return to single-day, in-person elections with limited absentee ballots — a dramatic reversal of the 2019 law that established all-mail voting statewide.

There is no mass voter fraud in the state.” Democrat commissioners and elections officials said there’s no merit to the claims of discrepancies in mail-in voting.

The state Legislature will be asked to ban wildly popular mail-in voting and return to one-day, in-person voting as a majority of Hawaii Elections Commission members continue to echo election doubts repeated by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters since his 2020 reelection defeat.

As if Hawaii needs another injection of unnecessary voting confusion and doubt, the state’s Election Commission has proposed the Legislature end mail-in balloting. It’s a bad idea, and must be denied.

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Some members of Hawaiʻi’s Elections Commission are trying to ban mail-in voting, claiming that there were miscounted ballots in last year’s elections. But several organizations and state lawmakers say mail-in voting is here to stay.

WAILUKU (KHON2) — On Saturday, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen announced he is seeking re-election in 2026. “I want to announce that I will be seeking re-election as mayor of Maui County in 2026,” he told KHON2 on Saturday. Mayor Bissen took office as Mayor in January 2023.