The state Legislature will be asked to ban wildly popular mail-in voting and return to one-day, in-person voting as a majority of Hawaii Elections Commission members continue to echo election doubts repeated by President Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters since his 2020 reelection defeat.

The panel has spent hours in meetings debating the findings of two “permitted interactive groups” that a majority of commissioners believe cast enough doubt on Hawaii’s ballot security to call for the Legislature to ban mail-in voting across the state.

The agenda of the Elections Commission’s Oct. 1 meeting included discussion of whether to ask lawmakers to order an audit of Hawaii’s elections. But Commissioner Ralph Cushnie, who was appointed by the House Republican caucus leader and has repeatedly u

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