Tiffany Edwards Hunt, a blogger and former County Council candidate, has been charged with voter fraud, the Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced today. ADVERTISING Tiffany Edwards Hunt, a blogger and former County Council candidate, has been charged with voter
Tiffany Edwards Hunt, a blogger and former County Council candidate, has been charged with voter fraud, the Hawaii County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announced today.
The charge follows an investigation that started during her race for the County Council District 5 seat in 2014.
At the time, Edwards Hunt faced allegations that she had changed her residential address on her voter registration records, allowing her to vote in another district’s races during previous elections. She lost to Daniel Paleka by 274 votes in the general election.
According to her voter registration records, she began to use her husband’s Pahoa surf shop as her residential address in 2008 before changing it back to her home in Hawaiian Acres in 2013.
The business and home were and remain located in separate electoral districts.
The Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release that the crime, a Class C felony, is alleged to have occurred between Aug. 7, 2012, and Nov. 5, 2012, the dates of that year’s primary and general elections.
Voter fraud is punishable by up to five years in prison and/or a fine of $10,000.
