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Hawaii: The state that doesn’t vote

Lahaina, Hawaii (CNN) — Elle Cochran grew up far too enchanted by Maui’s rocky coastline andbeach-bum lifestyle to care a thing about politics and voting. “You get up, work, go to the beach, sleep — and do it again,” she said of life on this Hawaiian island, which, of course, is known for its surf. “It’s just this routine.” But after a real estate project was proposed on Honolua Bay — a cliff-lined cove near her home that’s known for its ruler-straight waves — she decided to do something that’s bizarre for a non-voter. She ran for county council. “I never voted until I ran for office,” she said.

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Turns out my home town is the precinct with the lowest voter turn out In. The. Nation.
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