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Schatz Still Ahead of Hanabusa after Yesterday's Vote

Margin continues to be less than 1 percent.

KHON-TV

By Web Staff, Nestor Garcia, Manolo Morales and Gina Mangieri

August 15, 2014

Despite several setbacks in the primary election process, Sen. Brian Schatz has won the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat.

After the first printout Friday night, Schatz received 115,397 votes or 48.5% versus challenger Rep. Colleen Hanabusa’s 113,628 votes or 47.8%.

The second and final printout included eight absentee ballots that were dropped off in-person Friday. Four were for Schatz and four were for Hanabusa. The previous tally listed 12 ballots, but four were not valid, according to officials.

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