Hawaii Will Add A Few Voter Centers For This Year’s Primary. Are More Needed? … Good government groups are again calling for more in-person voting sites. But elections officials say resources limit how many sites each county can manage.
Thousands of voters who wanted to cast their votes in-person on Election Day in November 2020 found themselves waiting for hours in long lines outside Honolulu Hale and Kapolei Hale.
That was the year Hawaii switched to all-mail voting and opened just eight in-person voting locations across the islands. The long wait times spurred calls for additional voter service centers ahead of the 2022 elections. The Legislature cleared the way for that last year.
Now, Oahu will get two more voter centers in Wahiawa and Kaneohe while Maui will get another center in Hana.
But the Big Island is still sticking with its voter centers in Kona and Hilo. There won’t be any additional centers on Kauai either.
