Alika Atay rode an “emotional roller coaster ride” of defeat, hope, optimism and finally triumph after trailing former Maui County Council Member Dain Kane all Tuesday night, before claiming the Wailuku-Waihee-Waikapu residency seat in the final results released early Wednesday ...
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With a number of tight races getting down to the wire, there remained nearly 3,000 votes to count in Maui County, as of shortly before 11 p.m., according to Deputy County Clerk Josiah Nishita. The breakdown of those votes was: approximately 2,500 paper ballots from the Haiku Community Center; 300 late mail dropoffs; and 170 duplicated ballots, Nishita said. The Maui County Clerk's Office contacted candidates to inform them that there still were uncounted ballots, he said. "We didn't want anybody to think it's done or called," he said. A duplicated ballot is one in ...
After nearly 3,000 votes were counted late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, natural farm alchemist Alika Atay came from behind to defeat former Maui County Council Member Dain Kane for the Wailuku-Waihee-Waikapu council residency seat, according to general election results posted at 5:18 a.m. Kane led from the first printout, which had him ahead of Atay by 1,781 votes after only absentee mail-in and walk-in ballots were counted and reported. Meanwhile, Tuesday night leaders in county council races maintained their leads and held on to win seats. Vote tallies show ...
With Maui County voters going to the polls today, more than 24,000 votes already have been cast through mail-in and walk-in voting, a county election official said Monday afternoon. The absentee total comes within 3,000 votes of the total number cast — 26,993 — in the Aug. 13 primary election. This is in keeping with past trends of significant increases in general election voting, which decides who will be president, governor and mayor and — in 2014 — whether the highly charged genetically modified organism referendum would pass. The totals also reflect a voting trend ...
Maui voters turned out in greater numbers Tuesday, at least compared with anemic results during the Aug. 13 primary election, according to reports from polls at the Haiku Community Center, Maui High School, Kihei Community Center and Kihei Elementary School. In spite of a broken machine, the Haiku precinct drew an “unbelievable” turnout, officials said. “It's huge. It's unprecedented,” Gregory Unabia said Tuesday afternoon. Unabia has been a Maui voter assistance official for over a decade. “Today is really good,” said Dawn DeRego, precinct ...
