http://ilind.net/2009/10/21/residency-ruling-makes-political-waves-and-other-mid-week-news/ Ian Lind • Online daily from Kaaawa, Hawaii Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:47:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://ilind.net/2009/10/21/residency-ruling-makes-political-waves-and-other-mid-week-news/comment-page-1/#comment-6730 Reader Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:04:49 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=3557#comment-6730 Just noticed that comments used to be oldest first - now they are newest first. Just noticed that comments used to be oldest first – now they are newest first.

]]> http://ilind.net/2009/10/21/residency-ruling-makes-political-waves-and-other-mid-week-news/comment-page-1/#comment-6717 Anonymous Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:51:51 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=3557#comment-6717 The Supreme Court ruled that Kahoohalahala was not a resident for purposes of voting in the Lanai precinct in the 2008 election. But left intact the determination that he was qualified to run for the Lanai seat. The question is, subsequent to whatever date this case hinges on, did he taken the steps they indicated to establish residency? If he did that before the council term started, then this whole thing was an academic exercise by passionate and narrow minded people on Lanai. The Supreme Court ruled that Kahoohalahala was not a resident for purposes of voting in the Lanai precinct in the 2008 election. But left intact the determination that he was qualified to run for the Lanai seat. The question is, subsequent to whatever date this case hinges on, did he taken the steps they indicated to establish residency? If he did that before the council term started, then this whole thing was an academic exercise by passionate and narrow minded people on Lanai.

]]> http://ilind.net/2009/10/21/residency-ruling-makes-political-waves-and-other-mid-week-news/comment-page-1/#comment-6684 Richard Castle Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:07:14 +0000 http://ilind.net/?p=3557#comment-6684 The Hawaii Supreme Court's decision on Sol Kahoohalala's VOTER REGISTRATION now will require some effort by a voter at establishing a physical presence in the district where the voter registers to vote -- you can't just locate an address, have some mail go to the address, or leave your slippahs on the door mat. Representing Lanai and Molokai (and Hana to some extent) is tough for a serving Councilmember since the part-time Maui County Council actually meets year round in the County Seat in Wailuku -- you likely live on Maui most of the time (the Maui Charter has residency requirements for each of the nine seats but allows all County voters to elect the members -- a compromise to make sure that Lanai, Molokai and Hana have representation on the Council). But the issue here was that Sol Kahoohalahala's wife has had a job in West Maui for many years and Sol himself lived on Maui while serving as Exec Dir of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and even changed his voter registration to Lahaina in 2006. He switched back to Lanai to be eligible to run for the Lanai residency council seat. There is a separate appeal regarding whether Kahoohalahala rightly holds the Lanai seat; this appeal was about his voter registration and whether the Board of Registration moving away from the old intent to return standards should be augmented by requiring some kind of physical presence as well. The Hawaii Supreme Court’s decision on Sol Kahoohalala’s VOTER REGISTRATION now will require some effort by a voter at establishing a physical presence in the district where the voter registers to vote — you can’t just locate an address, have some mail go to the address, or leave your slippahs on the door mat. Representing Lanai and Molokai (and Hana to some extent) is tough for a serving Councilmember since the part-time Maui County Council actually meets year round in the County Seat in Wailuku — you likely live on Maui most of the time (the Maui Charter has residency requirements for each of the nine seats but allows all County voters to elect the members — a compromise to make sure that Lanai, Molokai and Hana have representation on the Council). But the issue here was that Sol Kahoohalahala’s wife has had a job in West Maui for many years and Sol himself lived on Maui while serving as Exec Dir of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission and even changed his voter registration to Lahaina in 2006. He switched back to Lanai to be eligible to run for the Lanai residency council seat. There is a separate appeal regarding whether Kahoohalahala rightly holds the Lanai seat; this appeal was about his voter registration and whether the Board of Registration moving away from the old intent to return standards should be augmented by requiring some kind of physical presence as well.

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