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Article: Elections chief: Vote-count delay could happen again
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
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- September 23, 1996
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Chief Elections Officer Dwayne Yoshina isn't ruling out another long wait for election results in the general election.
The final primary election results weren't released until 4:35 a.m. yesterday, some 101/2 hours after the polls closed.
The delay occurred while officials tested the vote-counting system in the middle of the tallying to make sure tabulations were error-free. The resulting delay that turned a traditionally long evening into a grueling marathon prompted widespread grumbling and a critique from Gov. Ben Cayetano.
But Yoshina said the blind test proved that the ballot-counting system works.
Election printouts, originally scheduled to be released at 6:30 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 ...