Saturday, May 21, 2016

WHAT COUNTS

Supreme Court hears the Office of Elections try to justify its handling of '12 election ballot errors http://www.disappearednews.com/2016/05/defending-indefensible-supreme-court.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DisappearedNews+%28Disappeared+News%29 by Larry Geller


Listen to my edit of the oral arguments here.
Listen (if you can hear it) to the Supreme Court official recording here.






“What does it take to affect people? We had people whose votes weren't
counted. And according to you, that doesn't affect people's right to
vote
.—Justice Richard Pollack
”

“So the remedy is make people sue and not to create a system that avoids
this?—
Justice Richard Pollack
”

“This is the constitutional, fundamental right to vote that is being
denied. This is not the right to paper clips.—
Justice Sabrina McKenna
”

“Does the record reflect how much money the state saved by denying these
people the right to vote?—
Justice Sabrina McKenna
”

Friday, July 10, 2015

Pièce De Résistance



PUHAHOU BOYS



 
 
 
 
 




 
 
 
Posted on August 24, 2012
by Dave Smith

Nago said the focus of the workshops on Maui, Kauai and Oahu would be on learning how elections are carried out in those counties, and “to brainstorm together on trouble shooting” with Kawauchi on problems related to the recent primary election and issues that could come up in the Nov. 6 general election.
 
 

Embattled Chief Election Officer Scott Nago keeps his job

Posted: Jan 25, 2013 12:45 PM <em class="wnDate">Friday, January 25, 2013 5:45 PM EST</em>Updated: Jan 25, 2013 4:23 PM <em class="wnDate">Friday, January 25, 2013 9:23 PM EST</em>
 
By Keoki Kerr
 
The state Elections Commission announced Friday that Chief Election Officer Scott Nago will keep his job and face no discipline after ballot shortages that affected 17 percent of Oahu's polling places during the Nov. 6 election.

Friday, June 20, 2014

"OBAMA MOVES"

Obama moves forward on Hawaiian recognition


 
 
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/20140618_Obama_moves_forward_on_Hawaiian_recognition.html?id=263703291
 
 
MEETINGS SCHEDULE
 
http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/interior-considers-procedures-to-reestablish-a-government-to-government-relationship-with-the-native-hawaiian-community.cfm

Monday, December 2, 2013

“virtually guaranteeing that the rest of President Barack Obama's term will be dominated by executive actions and court battles rather than legislation.”

“Obama has indicated that he would use executive actions wherever possible to advance major items on his agenda”

"the move paves the way for the confirmation of Obama's three pending appointments to the influential D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. Because the D.C. Circuit handles most major cases involving Washington-based regulatory agencies, it is a prime forum where major Obama initiatives will be fought out."

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

THE AKAKA TRIBE

[I have written to the DOJ, only to have my information shuffled from one agency to another, including the Department of the Interior, and finally coming full circle to the Hawaii Department of Labor. I do not think this was coincidence. At the HCRC, there is a commission member with the same name as the owners of my former employer's business, one Coral Wong Pietsch.
My information was passed by one Elaine Chao - Department Of Labor, in D.C. to Tin Shing Chao Department of Labor here in Hawaii, who used an erroneous date to nullify my complaint. This was after a layover at the Department of the Interior - of all places - and in California with Ms. Alison Pauly at the regional offices, whose CASPA investigation stated that I should have made this a written complaint, when Hawaii law states it does not matter, whether written or verbal. Could she be related to the Paulys who have donated to the University of Hawaii, and have owned land here?]


 


 

Akaka tribe jurisdictional conflicts shown by mainland examples BY KENNETH R. CONKLIN, PH.D.


 

In December 2011 I pulled together 13 news reports from the final 13 weeks of that year from various places on the mainland. For each situation I described the facts and cited a link to the full news report. The topics as made relevant to Hawaii were:

• Promises or contracts made by the Hawaiian tribe cannot be enforced because the tribe cannot be sued on account of tribal sovereignty;

• Counties cannot assess taxes on tribal property nor use foreclosure to collect taxes;

• Counties cannot assess or collect taxes on gasoline purchased or used on Hawaiian tribe lands which is used or purchased on non-tribal lands;

• A Hawaiian tribe could purchase land and have the Bureau of Indian Affairs put it into federal land trust, thereby removing all tribal businesses on that land from local taxation, and neither the state nor counties can stop the BIA from doing so [news reports concerning two different locations and tribes];

• If a member of the Hawaiian tribe is raped or beaten up by a spouse or friend in a house on tribal land, should a tribal court have jurisdiction to put the spouse or friend on trial and send him to jail even though that spouse or friend has no Hawaiian native blood or is not a tribal member?

• A Hawaiian tribe, either through neglect or intentional policy, could allow its lands to become a sanctuary for criminal activity which state and county governments would be powerless to stop;

• Should the Hawaiian tribe be given a large tract of undeveloped land because the tribe claims to be the rightful owner and/or because it promises to be a good steward of the land?

• A state-recognized tribe might spend many years unsuccessfully seeking federal recognition, and is likely to break promises and engage in corrupt practices while seeking federal recognition or a casino.;

• State recognition of a Hawaiian tribe could lead to federal recognition with unexpected consequences including casinos.;

• A Hawaiian tribe might have priority over non-tribal businesses when a casino is to be created; and such a priority if enacted by a state legislature might be unconstitutional.;

• Once the Hawaiian tribe has published its roll of members and has been recognized, the tribal council can enroll or disenroll people for no good reason, and sovereignty ensures no state or federal court can interfere.;

• Members of the Hawaiian tribe have no right to freedom of speech.; The tribal council might kick out of the tribe dissident members who support a different slate of candidates for the next tribal election, thus "fixing" the election, and the dissidents have no way to appeal their disenrollment except in a tribal court controlled by the existing council.

                                                                  ……………………

Here are a few mainland jurisdictional controversies with tribes, reported during the last week of July, 2013 as interpreted for relevance to Hawaii if the Akaka bill or an Executive Order creates a federally recognized Akaka tribe.

• It is an unsettled question currently being litigated, whether a Native Hawaiian tribal court has jurisdiction over a lawsuit for civil damages brought by the family of a tribal member who was killed or injured by a non-Native Hawaiian driver in a traffic accident on a state highway running through tribal lands. [Arizona]

• Native Hawaiian police can arrest and imprison someone who says misleading or slanderous things against a member of the tribal council. [Great Falls, MT]

• If a member of the Native Hawaiian tribe commits negligent homicide on non-tribal lands and then returns to his home on tribal lands, can a state sheriff go onto the tribal lands to arrest him, or are tribal lands a pu'uhonua or refuge where Native Hawaiian criminals cannot be arrested by the state? [Sious Falls, SD]

• When a 2-year-old toddler is raped and killed on Native Hawaiian lands, state and county police must stay out of it because of tribal sovereignty; and tribal police lack jurisdiction according to federal law because of the crime's seriousness; so the FBI must handle the case. [Oklahoma City, OK]

• State and county governments cannot assess taxes on Native Hawaiian tribal property located on tribal land, and cannot assess taxes on personal property nor property owned by a private non-Hawaiian limited liability corporation when leased by the Native Hawaiian tribe for use on tribal land [Mescalero, NM]

• A Native Hawaiian tribe could have its own laws regarding sales and taxation of liquor, tobacco, marijuana, gasoline -- laws in conflict with federal, state, and county laws governing neighboring lands across the street. [Sioux Falls, SD]

• Federal recognition of an Indian tribe is a complex, expensive, controversial, process; and the rules are being changed. How can local communities and wannabe tribes, seeking recognition, cope? [Solvang, CA]

This essay is a short summary of a much more detailed webpage which includes documentation for all the main points and links to the news reports. See http://tinyurl.com/kjoedjr



Thursday, January 17, 2013

DIE BOLD




"But the most troubling aspect of Chuck Hagel is the fact that he may have stolen both of his senatorial elections.

In 1992, Hagel was CEO of Election Systems & Software, maker of computerized voting machines.

On March 15, 1995, Hagel resigned as CEO but kept millions in stock options and declared that he was going to run for the U.S. Senate in Nebraska. Although he was a virtually unknown candidate; although he ran against a former governor, Ben Nelson, who was hugely popular; and although all the polls prior to the election indicated Ben Nelson would win the election, oddly Hagel won by a landslide with 83% of the vote.

It later turned out that Hagel’s voting machines had been used in virtually all of the precincts.

When Hagel ran for reelection in 2006, his previous landslide of 83% was eclipsed by an even wider margin.

It turns out that Hagel’s former company, Election Systems & Software/Diebold now counts the votes in most elections.

And it turns out Hagel’s voting machines have been embroiled in investigations of hacking and vote-switching that continue to this day."

Saturday, December 15, 2012

SO GOES THE NATION

CALIFORNIA
Mail-in-ballots Trashed and Found in Gutters Near Vallejo, CA

ARIZONA
"The Arizona Republic reported that robo-calls directed voters to the wrong polling stations, and that Democrats claimed it was an intentional effort by Republicans to misdirect people amid a tight Senate race."

ARKANSAN
"In Benton County, Arkansas, officials ran out of paper ballots, local television reported. Voters, who normally have an option to vote electronically or on paper, only had the e-vote option."

OHIO
"In Ohio, some Republicans claimed machines were changing Romney votes to Obama, while Democrats accused Republican state officials of installing untested "experimental" software at the last minute."

FLORIDA
"One Florida elections office mistakenly told voters in robocalls the election was on Wednesday."

HAWAII
Ballot shortages turn voters away from polls
70 polling places on Oahu running short or running out of paper ballots:

“Nago said 274,885 paper ballots were printed for the general election on Oahu, not counting absentee ballots.”

Oahu's population grew from 876156 to 953207 residents according to the latest census.”

TENNESSEE
Some voters still in line as polls close in TN

Voters Report Problems At Polling Places
“Another problem voters have had is showing up at the wrong precinct.”
"There's one polling place with 5 voting machines and only one machine operator. They're running out of change-of-address forms and people are being sent away. They're running out of provisional ballots. ... People are not being offered provisional ballots; they're just being turned away," Mancini said.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

MUST READS

Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street
Whenever Mr. Barofsky tried to ensure that banks were using TARP funds to make loans—the stated purpose of the programme—he was told that it would be impossible because ‘all money is green’
Yet the bankers themselves had no problem telling journalists how they planned to use the cheap capital to buy competitors or hoard cash for a rainy day.
Had it tried, the government could have solved this ‘co-ordination problem’—especially since FANNIE MAE and FREDDIE MAC, two government sponsored agencies that were created to support the growth of the American housing market, owned one-third of the toxic assets. But few cared.
Both books show that the OBAMA administration devoted much more energy and attention to helping WALL STREET than to stemming the foreclosure crisis, despite having been given TARP money to do so.
Ms. Bair recounts how the methodology used to calculate the ‘stress tests’ was cleverly altered so that CITI would keep its tax breaks. This resourcefulness was not applied to help keep people in their homes, however. The rules determining which mortgages would be modified were changed 9 times in the first year alone. A bigger problem was that these schemes were not designed with ordinary people in mind
She also believes that MR. GEITHNER, an appointed official, acted against the president’s wishes for years. This seems unlikely. Both books do something essential: they show the paths not taken. The financial crisis did not have to be so unfair.”

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