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Judicial Watch Files for Preliminary Injunction to Halt Native Hawaiian-Only Separatist Election
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction to halt a native Hawaiian election in which voter registration was restricted both by race and by a strict adherence to specified political viewpoints. The motion was filed on behalf of the five Hawaiian residents and one Texas resident of Hawaiian descent who oppose the discriminatory voter registration requirements instituted under Act 195. The motion was filed on August 28, 2015, as part of a federal lawsuit in the United States District Court for the State of Hawaii (Keli'i Akina, et al. v. The State of Hawaii, et al. (No. 1:15-cv-00322)).
On August 13, 2015, Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit against the state of Hawaii, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission (NHRC), and other State officials alleging that the Hawaiian "self-governance" vote violates the U.S. Constitution and federal voting rights laws.
Hawaii State officials, through Act 195, which became law in 2011, have tried to create a list of "Native Hawaiians" who would be eligible to recommend amendments to the state constitution at a planned constitutional convention and to vote on issues concerning the sovereignty of the "Native Hawaiian people." The act defines a "Native Hawaiian" as any person whom the government determines to be a direct descendant of the State's aboriginal peoples.
On July 20, 2012, using taxpayer funds from the State's Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the NHRC launched the Kana'iolowalu campaign, opening a registration process strictly confined to native Hawaiians who desire to vote for a new race-based sovereign government. The process, besides being racially discriminatory, excludes registrants who refuse to affirm all three of the following declarations:
• Declaration One. I affirm the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people, and my intent to participate in the process of self-governance.
• Declaration Two. I have a significant cultural, social or civic connection to the Native Hawaiian community.
• Declaration Three. I am a Native Hawaiian: a lineal descendant of the people who lived and exercised sovereignty in the Hawaiian islands prior to 1778, or a person who is eligible for the programs of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, or a direct lineal descendant of that person.
