Kauai election notices mailed, voters urged to verify registration details

Kauai voters registered on or before March 27 should start seeing 2026 election notices in their mailboxes, and anyone who has not received one by May 1 should contact the county Elections Division on Rice Street in Līhue. The notice is the first clear check on whether a voter’s record is current before the Aug. 8 Primary Election and the Nov. 3 General Election.

The county mailed the notifications on April 16, with later mailings set for people who registered after the March 27 cutoff. That makes the postcard a practical checkpoint for anyone who moved, changed a name or wants to avoid a registration problem once summer election deadlines tighten.

The county is also asking residents to help keep the voter list clean. If a notice arrives addressed to someone who no longer lives at that address, or to a person unknown there, write “NOT AT THIS ADDRESS” on it and send it back so the Postal Service can return it and the Elections Division can update the record. That matters on an island where apartment turnovers, rental changes and family moves can quickly leave voter rolls out of date.

The reminder has particular value for people most likely to fall through the cracks: recent movers in Līhue, Kapaa, Hanapēpē and Princeville, voters who have changed names, and anyone who depends on mailed government notices to stay in step with election deadlines. A delayed or undeliverable notice can be the first sign that a ballot may not reach the right address later in the year.

For voters with a Hawaii driver’s license or state ID, the county points to online registration as the fastest way to verify and update information. Paper registration forms and one-time absentee ballot applications can also be downloaded, mailed or hand-delivered to the Elections Division in Līhue, giving residents multiple ways to fix an address or status issue before the county moves deeper into the 2026 election calendar.

The message from the county is straightforward: check the notice, check the address and act now, while the gap is still measured in days rather than election-season deadlines.