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Judicial Watch Asks Hawaiian Court to Order Release of State Records for Hawaiian Racial Registration Campaign
Contact: Jill Farrell, Judicial Watch, 202-646-5188
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that on February 17, 2015, it filed an Application For An Order Allowing Inspection of Public Records against Hawaii's Native Hawaiian Roll Commission (NHRC) and its Executive Director, Clyde W. Namuo, to obtain records regarding the enrollment list of "Native" Hawaiians created pursuant to the Kana'iolowalu, the NHRC's controversial racial registration campaign. The Judicial Watch legal action was filed in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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 for Native Hawaiians who desired to vote for a new race-based sovereign government.
When the registration process closed in January 2014 – after a long and expensive marketing effort – only 40,000 Native Hawaiians had registered.
The NHRC then reopened registration in March and again in August of 2014. During this period, the State Office of Hawaiian Affairs transferred government lists of "Native Hawaiians" who had previously registered their "ancestry" with the State agency to the Kana'iolowalu campaign. At least 87,000 names were transferred to the NHRC's enrollment list. Individuals who object to being added to the race-based voter roll without their permission must file a form to have their names removed.
This enrollment list is being created under Act 195, the 2011 Hawaii law that authorizes the NHRC to create a list of "Native Hawaiians" who would be eligible to vote on issues concerning the sovereignty of the "Native Hawaiian people." Act 195 defines a "Native Hawaiian" as any person whom the government determines to be a direct descendant of the State's aboriginal peoples. A person may register for the Kana'iolowalu if, besides meeting the law's racial requirements, that individual has "maintained a significant cultural, social, or civic connection to the Native Hawaiian community" and "wishes to participate" in organizing an anticipated "Native Hawaiian governing entity."
The NHRC defines Kana'iolowalu as "the din that is being created by the mass of people who are coming together and moving forward to strive and achieve and recognize the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people …"
Judicial Watch has partnered with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, an independent state think tank that has had longstanding concerns about Hawaii's efforts to form and gain federal recognition of a race-based, sovereign nation are not in the best interest of either Native Hawaiians or the general population.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2015 /Standard Newswire/ -- Judicial Watch announced today that on February 17, 2015, it filed an Application For An Order Allowing Inspection of Public Records against Hawaii's Native Hawaiian Roll Commission (NHRC) and its Executive Director, Clyde W. Namuo, to obtain records regarding the enrollment list of "Native" Hawaiians created pursuant to the Kana'iolowalu, the NHRC's controversial racial registration campaign. The Judicial Watch legal action was filed in the Circuit Court of the First Circuit, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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 for Native Hawaiians who desired to vote for a new race-based sovereign government.
When the registration process closed in January 2014 – after a long and expensive marketing effort – only 40,000 Native Hawaiians had registered.
The NHRC then reopened registration in March and again in August of 2014. During this period, the State Office of Hawaiian Affairs transferred government lists of "Native Hawaiians" who had previously registered their "ancestry" with the State agency to the Kana'iolowalu campaign. At least 87,000 names were transferred to the NHRC's enrollment list. Individuals who object to being added to the race-based voter roll without their permission must file a form to have their names removed.
This enrollment list is being created under Act 195, the 2011 Hawaii law that authorizes the NHRC to create a list of "Native Hawaiians" who would be eligible to vote on issues concerning the sovereignty of the "Native Hawaiian people." Act 195 defines a "Native Hawaiian" as any person whom the government determines to be a direct descendant of the State's aboriginal peoples. A person may register for the Kana'iolowalu if, besides meeting the law's racial requirements, that individual has "maintained a significant cultural, social, or civic connection to the Native Hawaiian community" and "wishes to participate" in organizing an anticipated "Native Hawaiian governing entity."
The NHRC defines Kana'iolowalu as "the din that is being created by the mass of people who are coming together and moving forward to strive and achieve and recognize the unrelinquished sovereignty of the Native Hawaiian people …"
Judicial Watch has partnered with Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, an independent state think tank that has had longstanding concerns about Hawaii's efforts to form and gain federal recognition of a race-based, sovereign nation are not in the best interest of either Native Hawaiians or the general population.
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