Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Orders Office of Elections to Answer Petition Over Refusal to Support Elections Commission
Court gives state agency until July 24 to explain why it would not help the Commission meet; petitioners may reply by July 29
HONOLULU, Hawaiʻi — The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court has ordered the State Office of Elections to respond, by Friday, July 24, 2026, to a petition alleging the agency unlawfully refused to provide administrative support to the Hawaiʻi Elections Commission — support the Commission needed to convene a meeting and elect a chairperson.
The July 17, 2026, order, issued in Cushnie & McKay v. Nago (SCPW-26-0000498), directs Respondents Scott T. Nago, Chief Election Officer, and the Office of Elections to address two questions:
- Whether the Office of Elections failed or refused to provide staff support to the Elections Commission as required under Hawaiʻi Revised Statutes § 11-1.5(b); and
- Whether that failure prevented the Elections Commission from meeting to elect a chairperson.
The order was signed by Acting Chief Justice Sabrina S. McKenna, Justices Todd W. Eddins and Lisa M. Ginoza, and Circuit Judges Peter T. Cahill and Dyan M. Medeiros, sitting by assignment.
Background
Petitioners Ralph S. Cushnie and Tamara McKay, Commissioners of the Hawaiʻi Elections Commission representing Kauaʻi and Maui counties respectively, filed an emergency petition for writ of mandamus on July 8, 2026. The petition states that the Commission — which has lacked a chairperson since June 30, 2026 — could not lawfully notice or convene a meeting because the Office of Elections declined to provide basic administrative support, including a remote-meeting link and distribution of meeting notices, despite HRS § 11-1.5(b)’s requirement that the Office “shall provide staff support to the elections commission, as requested by the elections commission.”
The petition further states that the Department of Accounting and General Services confirmed in writing that the statutory support obligation rests with the Office of Elections, and that the Department of the Attorney General is not authorized to convene Commission meetings on the agency’s behalf.
What Happens Next
Under the Court’s order, Respondents must file their answer by July 24, 2026. Petitioners may then file a reply of no more than ten pages by July 29, 2026.
We’ve been reporting on this for a long time.
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Swap Hawaii for one of the Canadian Provinces.
Or Greenland
Hawaii provides a strategic imperative and logistic necessity. Don't be stupid. We have 11 MAJOR military installations there. Canada can't even fight their wildfires….
Nor can their few warships actually go to sea.
God no it's warm and beatiful there…. We would be swaping one liberal state for a socialist provence and all we would get is the cold. At least with Hawaii we get warm and pineapples and a few nuts
Alberta, Canada would be the Best swap ever!
Alberta has lots of OIL!!!
Govt gets it all
AMERICAN PATRIOTS WILL CEDE NO LAND! ERASE THE INVADERS . WE CANT MAKE NEW LAND BUT WE CAN MAKE NEW PEOPLE. GOOD HEALTHY INTELLIGENT WORKING INDUSTRIOUS PEOPLE. NOT WELFARE RATS. AMERICA IS A PUPPY FARM WITH INBREEDING AND DISEASE. TIME TO CLEAN IT UP.
WHY IS EVERBODY SHOUTING!–STEVE CARRELL, THE OFFICE
Alberta
I'd be willing to swap Hawaii for a grilled cheese sandwich.
With fries and a pickle?
We need the Marines to take over the US judiciary for a specified time, to allow the feds to make around 10,000 principal arrests across 50 states and DC, and get the tribunals and executions started.
10,000 is too low of a number. Deep State is easily 300,000+.
There are 3+ MILLION federal workers of which 90%+ are deep state bureaucrats. Then add in all the state, city, county, local etc…govt. bureaucrats that are in on the destruction and the number is in the tens of millions.
FJB FKH FFBI FDOJ!!!
MAYBE AS HIGH AS 100 MILLION. THINK ABOUT IT, THAT IS ONLY 1/3 OF THE COUNTRY……. IF NOT 100 MAYBE 80 OR 90.
Then add in the dark state, consisting of NGOs, foundations, and activist groups, feeding off taxpayer's money and untraceable donors. There is a whole shadow-state waiting in the wings for its signal to take over from the elected, accountable, government, and they are over 90% of the way there. Imagine if Hillary had won, and the USA had fallen.
Whatever the number, so long its every last one of them!!
Or we become a third world §hithole
ARMED TO GO TO THE STORE IS IN FACT 3RD WORLD. WE ARE HERE.
Sadly many places in America already are.
Sadly many places in America already are.
Until we decimate the intelligence controlled propaganda rags … it's going to be very difficult to assert ourselves in other places. Not saying we shouldn't do it. But reality just kind of is, what it is. We're not dealing with stupid people.
WELL THEY ARE….WE HAVE OR ARE ALLOWING OURSELVES TO BE SUBJUGATED.
FELLOW PATRIOT PUT OUR TRUST IN TRUMP AND TRIED EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO TURN THIS COUNTRY BACK INTO A CIVILIZED ONE. WHITE COLLAR IS ONLY POWERFUL….UNTIL IT IS NOT AND THEN THE WORK STARTS WHILE THE COWERING SIMPS RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. I AM REAL PROUD OF THE FACT I AM NOT ONE OF THEM.
Any particular reason you write in caps? It seems like you’re “screaming” by all the time.
its a litmus test to flush out those of the don lemmon ilk/LETS SAY YOU OFFER SOMETHING ON TOPIC AND STFUP….. ABOUT CAPS LOCK VIOLATIONS NANCY.
Let’s say your a moron who’s to lazy to bother with proper writing skills.
LETS SAY YOU ARE A MORON AND *TOO* LAZY TO SPELL YOUR INSULTS CORRECTLY. STAY IN EUROPE WITH YOUR BF NANCY.
Let’s say your a moron who’s **to** lazy to bother with proper writing skills.
I’ll at least admit that I made a typo. What’s your excuse?
YOU MUST STILL BE IN HOPIUM MODE, WE WERE ALL IN BEFORE WE ELECTED TRUMP. THE NEW PLAN IS TO DEBANK THE INVADERS SO THEY LEAVE VOLUNTARILY. HOW DOES SOMEONE WITH NO ROOTS,IDENTIFICATION OR CITIZENSHIP GET A BANK ACCOUNT? WERENT WE TOLD ALL BANKING LAWS WERE CHANGED TO PREVENT TERRORISM? HOW IS IT POSSIBLE WE PAY ALL THEIR BILLS AND ANY MONEY THEY STEAL GETS SENT TO THEIR HOMELAND THEY FLED AND WERE GIVEN ASSYLUM TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE VERY TERRORISTS THEY ARE SENDING OUR MONEY TO……YET LAWS IN AMERICA PREVENT US FROM STOPPING IT?
LAWS ONLY APPLY TO CITIZENS BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE DEEP STATE.
THE FATIGUE IS REAL AND IT IS A FUSE.
Hoo Rah!
Only if America had a MAGA AG, Trump bended the knee and has since been in freefall, same as 2016
Obama got his law passed to allow him to turn on his smoke generators and our Fed Gov folks came to believe there must be a fire somewhere.
GOD BLESS HYPOCRISY……..
Immediately after Trump's speech where he revealed that China had stolen the voter files for 220M Americans, Democrats and their minions in the MSM spewed the talking point that it was no big deal because that information is easily accessible to campaigns.
These are the same people who defend blue states not turning over their voter rolls to DHS because, wait for it………………. if they did that those records could be hacked!
Hawaiʻi?
Just stop with this crap. What's next? Mex'Hi'co?
Ugh.…The worst for me, is the pronunciation of Guatemala.
"Breaking News….The leader of the Sinaloa Cartel has been conducting executions of rivals in a tiny village in central…Wadtamela."
They'll be annunciating everything perfectly, then all of a sudden, sound like a toothless old beggar woman.
((((sigh))))
It just pisses…me…off!
"Wadtamela"
Is that near Wakanda?
Guantanamera….
Hawaii is another Shift Hole Welfare State Like New York and California that our Federal Government supports with our tax dollars to keep them from going under .
THEY BURNED OUT THEIR OWN CITIZENS AND NO ONE WAS HELD ACCOUNTABLE. MEXICAN CARTEL WARLORDS ARE NOT AS BOLD OR PROTECTED.
Hawaii does not want fair elections…….to many grifters would be out of work
You mean Democrat Communists. They've been the ruling Party my whole life…
It was in Hawaii where the deed was done with the Manchurian Presidents birth certificate.
Black Robe Brigade remains firmly entrenched.
Send in the Marines.
IF YOU CANT PROVE ELECTION INTEGRITY, YOUR VOTE DOES NOT COUNT.
AFTER THE MID TERMS THE STATES THAT CHOSE NOT TO PROVIDE ELECTION INTEGRITY WILL BE UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL UNTIL SUCH TIME WE DECIDE THEIR VOTE DOES COUNT. UNTIL SUCH TIME ALL LAWS,COURTS AND PAYMENT OF FEDERAL TAXES WILL BE UNDER FEDERAL CONTROL. FRAUD MUST ELIMINATED BEFORE ANY TAX DOLLARS RETURN TO THE STATE.
ANY BETS ON HOW LONG FRAUD EXISTS IN THE BLUE STATES AFTER WE OVERSEE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF LAW?
is this the same Supreme Court that says they're going to come defy the US Supreme Court on their rulings?
Hawaii wants to mess around, then don’t count their votes.
Plain and simple… They cheat… They have always cheated… They want to continue to cheat…
We should start pushing a button cancelling all federal funding for instances like these! You're on your own…
Trump does it on a dime for tariffs, why not federal funding!?
The people of hawaii, the natives, we don’t need the United States that’s exactly what we want. Being that the U.S. (STATE OF HAWAII) is an illegal occupation who’s been unlawfully and unconstitutionally asserting they’re laws, statutes and administrative rules in a foreign country without any treaty or treaty of annexation for the last 133 years breaking all u.s and international laws. It wasn’t us that said the overthrow of our queen was illegal, it was the president of the u.s.a. Who made that call. He was trying to restore the queen back into power of her country. 1893 illegal overthrow -1894 -the u.s.a cheated their elections to stop Cleveland from restoring our queens powers. We were absolutely fine without the United States. The u.s. are the biggest terrorist of the world. The u.s. have been and still is holding Hawaii and the people of Hawaii hostage.its been war crimes every day since 1893. It’s time to set us free and get the hell out of the Hawaiian kingdom so our country can start the punishment process with the integrity of accountability for every living state of hawaii(u.s.) politicians and former politicians and their family members who unlawfully served Hawaii in the last 134 years.
Tee hee! Hypocrite! I bet you’re Japanese and NOT a native Hawaiian!!! You have allowed the Japanse to completely take over Hawaii and the native Hawaiians are still living in poverty!!! STFU!
Bring out your dead…voters!
LOL BY THE WHEELBARROW FULL!!! ;)
Judges better realize if we ever gain control again Judges will be judges.
.
If not, THEY will be Judged when THEY Cross dat River by G-d!
huh?
If u haven’t noticed, so many Judges do NOT follow da Law! No LOL!
They are merely lawyers with a different title.
Scum of da Earth! No LOL!
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE- AMERICA IS BEING INVADED- MEN WITH RECTAL CANCER THAT THINK THEY ARE MENSTRUATING ARE RUNNING FOR OFFICE- SELF DEFENSE IS A CRIME- 2 YEARS IN AND WE ARE PRETENDING VOTER THEFT AND ELECTION FRAUD ARE PERPETRATED BY A FEW AND NOT THE DEEP STATE.
DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT THESE PEOPLE SAY?
CIVIL WAR 2 IS HERE AND WE AINT VOTING OUR WAY OUT OF THIS HORRIFYING REALITY.
THESE ARE THE FACT OF LIFE….HOW DO YOU INTEND TO SURVIVE?
The only way to get them to respond it whip them and then they will cooperate.
"When the revolution comes", Rapp Brown.
I don't see even one Hawaiian name in this story.
Lets trade Hawaii for Taiwan.!!!
God does not want you to sit on your ass and let the democrats destroy what he gave us.
They're all insane DemoNazis. They love the cheat, because it puts their compatriots in power.
I thought HI SC wanted to secede from the Union….
Glad I moved out of Paradise. https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTg5OGZmOWM5aWhsenJ0eWM3NmV6eTJjaXFza2Fpa2VzNnNmbmQ3NnUxbTFzeWVxNSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/oa4kd9mw6GBm8/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
Democrats created the Civil War. Need i say more.
Hawaii seems to be the American version of Brazil.
Hawaii is fully communist.
Like Cali, Illinois, MN, NY, NJ, and MA.
Ammo up, this treason cannot be voted away.
Nothing like living in a great location and being on the Democrats dole! One of the many attractions of living in HI. Luckily for HI it costs money to get there. You can live in a tent on the beach and just move to another beach every six days and not break the law – I'm told.
AS LONG AS YOU MEET PROTECTED CLASS CHECK BOXES.
They'll do it on Hawaii time – surf's up.
Guess that the state government decided it did not have to follow the law after what the state courts claimed about following federal laws
The State of Hawaii is a mess. That same state Supreme Court just told SCOTUS, basically, that their opinions are not binding on them because they are not in the “spirit of Aloha”, or whatever the frack that means. SMH….
Why the f is Hawaii even a US State?! Give it back to the "poi-boys"…
What's with the apostrophe in Hawaii? You didn't used to do that. I thought English spelling and pronunciation was the official speech of the USA. I appreciate that many in Hawaii are descendants of original Hawaiians, but remember they JOINED America and wanted to be AMERICAN CITIZENS. That meant that they should also want to ASSIMILATE American speech and the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.
That’s not true, show me the damn treaty or Treaty of annexation. We never wanted to join America. Look it up. It’s called the ku’e petition. 95% of the Hawaiian kingdom said and signed no to statehood 95%.of our country Ko Hawaii Pae Aina said NO.
But *no” is not what happened. What do you plan to do about it, seceed?