He’s held the job longer than anyone else in state history and been at the center of controversy nearly every election cycle.

On Feb. 19, 2010, an editorial in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin welcomed the appointment of a new chief election officer for Hawaiʻi.

Under the headline “Go, Nago, Go,” the article wished all the best for Scott Nago, a 12-year veteran of the Hawaiʻi Office of Elections who had just assumed the top job under trying circumstances.

Looming ahead that year was an unresolved budget shortfall for the office, the search for a vendor to install new voting machines, a special election in late May to pick a new U.S. representative and competitive races for governor and other major offices in the primary and general elections.

Fifteen years later, Nago is still at his post, h

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