Section 3-170-11 - Open meetings(a) Every meeting of the elections commission shall be open to the public and all persons shall be permitted to attend any meeting unless otherwise provided in the state constitution or as closed pursuant to sections 92-4 and 92-5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or any other applicable law; provided that the chairperson may remove any person or persons who willfully disrupt a meeting to prevent and compromise the conduct of the meeting.(b) Interested persons wishing to submit data, views, or arguments, in writing, on any agenda item shall submit to the elections commission, no later than the two workdays prior to the day of the meeting, a legibly written or typed copy of the information, on 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper. The information must be in a form that may be reproduced by xerographic means for distribution to the members of the elections commission.(c) Oral testimony may be given to the elections commission on any agenda item, but the chairperson may limit each person to no more than three minutes per agenda item and may further limit or terminate testimony that the chairperson determines to be repetitious or given solely for the purpose of delay. The chairperson may at any time require any person appearing before it in a representative capacity to show that person's authority and qualifications to act in such a representative capacity and to identify the person and interests that are being represented.(d) Nothing in this section shall prevent the elections commission from soliciting oral remarks from persons present at the meeting or from inviting persons to make presentations to the elections commission on any particular matter that relates to items on the elections commission's agenda.[Eff JAN 24 2008] (Auth: HRS § 11-7.5) (Imp: HRS § 92-3)