Hawaii just saw a record high turnout in its primary election. Nearly everyone voted by mail.

https://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-just-saw-its-highest-primary-turnout-voted-by-mail-2020-8


The state of Hawaii saw on Saturday the highest primary election turnout ever recorded in the state, and nearly all of the state residents who voted in the election cast their ballot by mail.

Fewer than 1% of ballots cast in the Saturday election were completed in person, according to the Hawaii Office of Elections. Out of the 406,425 ballots cast by the election deadline, 400,952 were delivered via mail-in ballot — meaning 99% of votes cast Saturday were cast by mail, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.

While just 51% of the state's registered voters cast a ballot in the August 8 election, the Saturday primary election passed Hawaii's all-time record, previously set in 1994, for turnout in a primary election by 97,000 ballots, according to the report.

"We were happy," Nedielyn Bueno, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Elections," told the Star-Advertiser. "Seeing the high turnout shows that vote-by-mail is something voters are happy with. It's accessible and convenient, which has always been the mission of the Office of Elections. It showed that voters did like it."

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