Tuesday, September 22, 1998
House Speaker Joseph Souki handily defeated Sally Raisbeck in the primary election, despite her raising questions about him getting $100,000-plus in business dealings in connection with the development of Bishop Estate's school project near Pukalani, Maui. Souki foe emphasizes
estate dealIt's criticism that car salesman Kalani Tassil, Souki's GOP challenger in November for Maui's District 8, said "won't go away."
Souki said his opponents have been attacking him because they have "nothing to run on" and no record of serving in public office.
VOTER STYMIED With the state's new computerized voting system, the primary ballot is color-coded to guide people to vote for just one political party, and in nonpartisan races, such as for the Board of Education.
But that system stymied some voters who are colorblind.
In fact, one such voter showed up at the Ahuimanu Elementary School precinct in Kaneohe, said Sherrie Au, who was the voter assistance official there.
The voter was an elderly woman who was accompanied by another woman, apparently her daughter, Au said. The younger woman was allowed into the voting booth to help the older woman, she said.
"It was thought through very well," Au said of the ballot design.
"We had no problems with the machines. But some people didn't understand that they couldn't vote every color," she added.
By Star-Bulletin staff