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Disputed Tiebreaker Spurs New Rematch Request Of Supreme Court

Investigative stories and local news updates. Coverage of Hawaiʻi’s 2026 elections Award winning in-depth reports and featured on-going series. Get the week’s news delivered straight to your inbox. The election do-over bid comes after incumbent Kurt Fevella lost a tiebreaker to Bob McDermott in the Republican primary. Less than a week after ordering the state Office of Elections to redo a state House race that was settled in a controversial tiebreaker, the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court is being asked to order a redo of another contest decided by a tiebreaker last month.

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Scoop News DeskEwa Beach, Hawaii · Published Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 2:31 AM UTCUpdated Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM UTC

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2 hearing mentioned the parallels between Senate and House races multiple times. “This Petition presents an issue that must be resolved before the 2026 General Election ballot is irreversibly finalized and distributed,” according to Fevella’s filing. 24 deadline to file an election complaint.

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