by Martina Wing | Oct 9, 2026 | Fair elections
Can a state decide that the corporations it creates have no power to spend money on elections? Hawaiʻi says yes. Act 11, signed by Governor Josh Green on May 14, 2026, is the state’s response to Citizens United, the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door...
by Martina Wing | Oct 2, 2026 | Fair elections
This fall’s ballot could change how Honolulu is run, from how the Mayor is elected to how police respond to federal immigration requests. Yet most voters reach the Charter questions with little background on what each one would do. In all, 20 proposed amendments...
by Martina Wing | Sep 10, 2026 | Elections
By Marlene, volunteer observer and co-lead of Indivisible Honolulu Every mail-in ballot cast in Hawaiʻi passes through a series of checks before it’s ever counted. This election cycle, I volunteered as an official observer with the Office of Elections to see...
