Informing the Legislature that on May 23, 2024, the Governor signed the following bill into law: SB2333 HD1 CD1 (ACT 027).

This bill allows election officials in Hawaii to use accurate copies of paper ballots instead of the original ballots when auditing electronic voting results. The law requires that ten percent of precincts using electronic systems be audited at random to verify that the machine counts match manual counts. Officials may now use these copies to perform the verification, which is intended to make the audit process more efficient without reducing its accuracy. The measure also sets conditions for using electronic tallies, such as requiring system inspections and prohibiting software changes for thirty days after an election.