New Mikki Willis Documentary Asks a Simple Question: Can Hawaiʻi’s Elections Be Independently Verified?
Film examines election oversight, transparency, and the growing call for accountability.
HONOLULU, Hawaiʻi — Award-winning filmmaker Mikki Willis has released a new documentary exploring one of the most important questions facing Hawaiʻi today: Can the public independently verify the integrity of its elections?
The film follows current and former Elections Commissioners, election observers, and concerned citizens who have spent years examining election records, attending public meetings, and seeking answers about how Hawaiʻi’s elections are conducted and overseen.
Drawing from public records, commission proceedings, legislative testimony, and news coverage, the documentary examines concerns raised by participants regarding ballot accountability, chain-of-custody documentation, election oversight, access to records, and the ability to independently reconcile election results. It also presents the responses of election officials, who have maintained that Hawaiʻi’s elections are secure and that there is no evidence of systemic fraud, while disputing many of the criticisms raised in the film.
At its core, however, the documentary is not simply about election procedures.
It is about public trust.
The film asks whether confidence in elections should rest primarily on assurances from government officials—or whether it should also be supported by transparent processes that citizens can independently examine and verify.
Throughout the documentary, participants argue that election integrity is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue. It is an American issue. Every voter, regardless of political belief, has an interest in elections that are transparent, accountable, and worthy of public confidence.
The documentary also explores broader questions about government accountability, the role of independent oversight, and the responsibility of citizens to remain engaged in the institutions that govern them.
Its conclusion is both a warning and an invitation.
If citizens lose confidence in the electoral process, trust in representative government inevitably suffers. But if citizens become informed, ask questions, participate in public meetings, and insist upon transparency, confidence can be rebuilt.
The film calls upon Hawaiʻi’s people not to disengage, but to become active participants in preserving the integrity of self-government.
As the documentary concludes, democracy is not sustained by elections alone. It depends upon an informed public willing to hold its institutions accountable and ensure that every lawful vote can inspire public confidence.
The question the film leaves with every viewer is straightforward:
If our elections are worthy of public trust, should they also be independently verifiable?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&is=fmCoRE5duIGreFD0&v=0uAxZVJtFBY&feature=youtu.be
Hello Hawaii, your elections are rigged….
Hello! We know that, but the dems are using the typical democrat bs and are saying no one apparently has standing to bring these cases forward. How can you have thousands of more returned ballots than actual voters on one island? And on other islands running out of ballots? All of the election officials from each county and the main state election official are all Soros SOS graduates. The DSA are huge in the local party. You almost have to be a card carrying member to get into office as a lowly state representative. You must be one to go for national seats.
As are New York's, California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, D.C. ETC.
Hello, Hawaii is a mail in ballot state. So No
I KNOW YOU CAN'T TRUST THE MAUI SHERIFF AFTER THE FIRE AND YOU COULDN'T TRUST HIM WHEN HE WORKED IN LAS VEGAS AFTER THE SHOOTING EITHER !!!
SOMETHING FUNNING HAPPENING IN THE ISLAND … LEON SEZ IT'S TIME TO GET BACK TO THE ISLAND …
WE GOTTA CLEAN UP SOME STUFF …
You should see who the brain trusts selected to be Honolulu police chief.
Wherever there are democrats, there is cheating. It's how they survive in politics.
It would not exist if the opposition party opposed it. Plain fact.
Economic and societal dead end cul de sac marxists
can not gain and keep power without criminality, fraud,
censorship and lawless thuggery.
You vill eat ze bugs.
She has a point, as ALL voting records SHOULD BE publicly available!!
Ask ANY ILLEGAL if there are ANY 'I's in HAWAII. They would say NONE.
Everything about Hawaiian politics is corrupt, as is most if not all of it's administrative system. For Presidential elections the Speaker of the House of Representatives sends to each state, a document laying out the qualification for someone to run for President. The state has to to certify under oath that each particular candidate meets those requirements. In 2008, Hawaii altered the wording of the document certifying Barry Soetoro, under the pseudonym, Barak Hussein 0bama, and the Speaker, Pelosi, accepted it.
Quite a few “States” should be disqualified from voting in national elections.
Can any Blue State's ????
Very few states can make a claim to accurate vote totals.
Republicans work hard to earn votes …
Democrats work harder at manufacturing Ballots ….
Need a forensic audit by politically neutral people.
Or people present from both parties. Dueling weapons available. sarc.
Now is the time to pass The Save America Act .
Mitch can't vote against it.
Pass The Save America Act and stop the alexsoros oligarchy from destroying America!
Thune hates us.
I don't give a shit. He needs to go.
Dead Career Walking. He thinks we will forget. He thinks we'll get distacted. We won 't.
Thune doesn't care one way or the other. He will do whatever he's paid to do.
The Save Act will NOT help in the least because it only forces NEW, UNREGISTERED individuals to show proof of citizenship.
The Drats are going to rig the mid-terms – guaranteed and unless Trump pulls a rabbit out of his hat, the Drats will install a nightmare in 2028.
If a Republican wins anything, there will be a full investigation.
You if you believe you can trust Iran .
How do we have more corrupt elections than most 3rd world country??
"Can Hawaiʻi’s Elections Be Independently Verified?"
Yes, Hawai'i's elections can be verified.
It's only a matter of will and who is verifying the votes.
Such is true — the political WILL OF THE PEOPLE, for such necessary integrity, needs to be there — but what is our approach to promoting, advocating for, and developing such a will?
In general, I have an answer — not a specific answer — but that more comprehensive answer, for a good time now, is the nut on which my family and some colleagues and I have been working.
I can tell you this: any such effort to enact such meaningful and lasting change — it must be a deep-seated cultural change — is going to take considerable time and effort; where, just stating such restrictions may violate the mindset of a whole bunch of American Citizens … but that is what We The People, COLLECTIVELY, need to change.
Such will be no small task.
But, we are Americans, are we not?
MAGA & MAHA!
Such is true.
The political WILL OF THE PEOPLE, for the achievement of such necessary integrity, needs to be there — but what is our approach to promoting, advocating for, and developing such a will?
In general, I have an answer — not a specific answer — but that more comprehensive answer, for a good time now, is the nut on which my family and some colleagues and I have been working.
I can tell you this: any such effort to enact such meaningful and lasting change — it must be a deep-seated cultural change — is going to take considerable time and effort; where, just stating such restrictions may violate the mindset of a whole bunch of American Citizens … but that is what We The People, COLLECTIVELY, need to change.
Such will be no small task.
But, we are Americans, are we not?
MAGA & MAHA!
when a democrat wins it is called a fair election, if the GOP wins it was rigged……just ask CNN
The DemoKKKommunists are totalitarians,
so obviously
they are opposed to election integrity.
Blue states have obviously invested heavily in election fraud as they are all predominantly democrat and have been for several election cycles. They all use the same methods and refuse any attempts at examination. They are firmly entrenched in their political offices and common sense dictates that their continued success defies statistical probability. It's exactly why they vehemently oppose the SAVE Act.
Even the slowest among us knows that.
no they CAN'T; THOUGH THEY TRY TO DO EVERYTHING RIGHT AT WHERE you VOTE AFTER THAT ITS A FREE FOR ALL
Hawaii is the bluest of states and therefore can cheat in elections with zero repercussions. They will never relinquish power until all the perps are brought to justice.
Impossible.
The FIX is in.
Voting is broken…. 100% in North America.
No, because its illegal under communism to investigate rigged elections……
If voting made a difference they wouldn't let us do it
DOJ, where are you?……
no paper trail, no accountability, no questions, sounds like democracy
simple answer: no
DemonRats are thieves. They steal elections which enables them to loot our whole economy, living on nothing but the grift. Zero productivity. Just parasites. Leeches living off the fat of the land. They will never stop unless they meet up with citizen vigilante.
CAN they be vs could they be. They COULD be.
Will they be?
AWW HELL NO !
Intellectual laziness, or otherwise, a lack of interest or outright apathy about the process, and you end up with what you deserve. Should any official, or entity offer any pushback to thwart curiosity about the election process, and the alarm should be sounded, loud, broadly, and often.
I used to live in Hawaii. It is so deep blue that I think it's impossible to have a two party system there. And when a state is run by a one party system like California, there isn't much you can do to get any transparancy.
So no. I don't think there is a way to verify Hawaii elections because you would need the ability to access the election records and that isn't going to happen in a Blue State.
If the B.A.R. is in anyway involved I have to say, NO!
Not a chance. The Kamehameha Commission has institutionalized corruption in this state for eons.
Well, it's a bolshevik stronghold, so prolly not—-we should dump those mooks as a state—is that possible? After all, it's merely a welfare protectorate….sell it to Japan, they'll get those idiots in line….
JJapan. I can think of worse nations. Unfortunately, it'll be the Chinese and you've just given them the Western Pacific with it's vast natural resources and an ICBM launch point 2500 miles from the West Coast, along with a port to house boomers.
Yeah Squid, I know—you ever heard of sarcasm?—–But seriously, what you said is prolly the reason we put up w/ their blue state BS…
Need a new passport? Need a fake birth certificate? no questions asked, Hawaii´s the place to go!
That's how Obama got one.
I am sure they are as honest as are MI elections or at least nearly as much. After all Mazie will vouch for them and in Mazie you can trust just like SlowJoe.
Hawaii is sooooo screwed … I don't think it can ever be UNSCREWED !!!
People don’t understand about Hawaii is that it is a closed society. Everyone is related either by blood or marriage and they only hire people from other democratic run states. When the FBI lands they know about it before they get in the car. Hawaii is gonna make California election fraud look like amateurs.