Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 7, 1 July 1992 — Hui Hoʻala kicks off Hawaiian voter campaign [ARTICLE]

Hui Hoʻala kicks off Hawaiian voter campaign

Hui Ho'ala, a non-partisan campaign to register and educate Native Hawaiian voters, is getting under way for the 1992 elections. This registration campaign was conducted in 1990 by the member agencies of the Hawaiian Services, Institutions and Agencies (HSIA) and other participating organizations. It included the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, Kamehameha Schools/Bishop Estate, Alu Like, ine., Papa Ola Lokahi, the State Oouneil of Hawaiian Homestead Associations, the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and Bishop Museum, working with the Office of the Lt. Governor. Hui Ho'ala means "a group that causes an awakening or a forward movement. " The voter campaign will include:

• community outreach projects to identify, locate and educate voters on the importance of voting; • registering new voters or re-registering former voters using the Wikiwiki voter registration form; • arranging for absentee ballots and providing transportation to the polls, if needed. The eampaign will seek to reach Native Hawaiians of voting age in their home districts. The last campaign conducted by Hui Ho'ala in 1990 involved teams of volunteer registrars who registered people at cultural events, shopping malls and other civic centers, and who walked house-to-house in neighborhoods identified as having large Hawaiian populations with low voter registration. Television, radio and

newspaper advertising were also used to reach prospective voters. The campaign in 1990 signed up 17,000 new Hawaiian voters and increased registration in eaeh district that was identified and targeted. In 1992, due to reapportionment of representative districts, the Hui Ho'ala program will onee again need to identify and target large areas of Hawaiian population for voter registration drives. Persons interested in assisting with the Hui Ho'ala voter registration project should contact Jalna Keala at the Office of Hawaiian Affairs at 586-3777 or eall Haunani Apoliona at Alu Like at 836-8940. Neighbor islanders may eall their nearest OHA office.