Office of Elections pushes back on allegations it overcounted hundreds of 2024 Kauaʻi ballots

Earlier this summer, a permitted interaction group, or PIG, within the state Elections Commission put out a report accusing the Office of Elections of overcounting 600-plus ballots received in Kauaʻi County during the 2024 election.

The commission then voted to hire an independent accounting firm to audit the Kauaʻi results, which will likely cost over $100,000.

However, the Office of Elections said the PIG report is incorrect and has issued its own over 1,000-page report in response.

The PIG report relies on an unofficial manual count of daily dropbox pickups of mail-in ballots by Kauaʻi County. The manual count is meant to be a way to estimate staffing needs throughout the election period. The PIG used those unofficial counts to identify the claimed discrepancy.




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