Now, I see one of the biggest threats to our democracy may be Office of Elections.
From my current case and experience with Chief Election Officer, Mr. Nago, in Ms. Hanabusa’s disqualification as gubernatorial candidate, I suspect they might have been selecting or deselecting the politicians thru rigging, if they were not able to control or they don’t like them before the elections.
If they don’t like you, you may never become elected.
This is very serious crime, threatening our core value of democracy, if so.
Many Hawaii people are very naive; and I also see people (me, no exception) may sometimes misunderstand politics and/or mistakenly label or mislabel people around politics due to main media’s and establishment’s manipulations for their interests.
I truly hope the Supreme Court orders the investigation on the Office of Elections.
And, more vetting systems may need to be implemented; and frequent audits need to be conducted on the regular basis, (more than now by different people and departments).
This may be now one of top Hawaii Reforms that we need to have.
Aloha.