Section 3-177-57 - Districts, precincts, polling places, and ballot types(a) "District" means, unless otherwise specified, the district of political representation with the fewest eligible voters in a particular election. The use of the general term "district," without reference to a specific office, such as council member district, state representative district, state senatorial district, or U.S. Representative District, shall be comparable to the prior utilization of the term "precinct" or "district precinct" before the enactment of elections by mail. Specifically, election administrators may account for the intersecting boundaries associated with different offices or jurisdictions to establish the "districts" that will be used for administrative and reporting purposes. Similarly, election administrators may take into account historical reporting of results by specific regions or communities in establishing the "districts" that will be used for administrative and reporting purposes.(b) To the extent a statute continues to refer to a "precinct," unless the context indicates otherwise, it will be understood to have the same definition as a district in subsection (a).(c) In terms of identifying a district used for administrative or reporting purposes a two-part naming, convention may be used. For example, a district may be represented with a hyphen, dash, or. forward slash between a. state representative district number and the administrative district within it, to facilitate identifying the boundaries of the district in relation to the larger boundaries of intersecting offices or jurisdictions (e.g., DP 07-01 or DP 07/01). Otherwise, a different naming convention may be used, so long as there is on file a description of the boundaries of the district. No changes to any such district boundaries shall be made later than 4:30 p.m. on the tenth day before the close of filing for an election. (d) "Polling place," "polls,", or "pollbooks", unless the context indicates otherwise, refers to a voter service center or something in connection with a voter service center.(e) "Ballot type" unless the context indicates otherwise, means the unique ballot containing the contests, question, or issues of the voters of a specific district. The ballot type associated with one district may contain the same contests, question, or issues associated with a different ballot type to be used by the voters of a different district, with the only difference being the administrative identification of a ballot type.(f) Election officials may accommodate other ballot types, as may be necessary, including the distinction between ballots cast at voter service centers, ones associated with ballot packages, those associated with electronic, transmission, categories of voters required by state or federal law to have a particular type of ballot, and any other category that facilitates the reporting of results or the inventory control of ballots.(g) A particular ballot type associated with a district or category of voter may be used for different district or category of voter, if the contests, questions, and issues are the same. To the extent there are differences, they will be addressed by the counting center officials, pursuant to HAR § 3-177-759.[Eff JUL 26 2020] (Auth: HRS § 11-4) (Imp: HRS §§ 11-1, 11-4, 11-5, 11-11, 11-12, 11-13, 11-15.2, 11-17, 11-18, 11-20, 11-21, 11-22, 11-25, 11-26, 11-92.1, 11-92.3, 11-96, 11-97, 11-102 through 11-109, 11-112, 11-117, 11-138, 11-153, 11-155, 11-172, 11-174.5, 13D-3, 15-2.5, 15-4, 15-11, 15-14, 15D-10, 16-1, 16-22, 16-23, 16-26, 16-27, 16-28, 16-42)