Estimates from the bureau’s American Community Survey also show that there are about 370,000 Native Hawaiians living outside of the state while only 309,800 live in Hawaii. Census Bureau, Clark County and California’s Sacramento County had the biggest growth of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in 2021. “We also see the trajectory that Hawaiians are moving to Vegas, and so it’s important that we get ahead of it,” he said.Īccording to the U.S. Lewis said moving the convention to Las Vegas is a reflection of the large migration of native Hawaiians to the continental United States. The Western Regional Native Hawaiian Convention will take place June 19-22 at the Westgate, marking the first time in the convention’s 22-year history that it will be held away from the Hawaiian islands, according to Kuhio Lewis, CEO of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement, the organization behind the convention. “The decision to hold a convention on the continent says to us, the community who moved away, ‘You’re still ohana (family) we haven’t forgotten you it’s time to reconnect,’” Pu’ukani Sebala said. That’s one reason he’s excited that a convention meant to boost native Hawaiian culture is coming to Las Vegas this month, burnishing the city’s reputation as the Ninth Island. Pu’ukani Sebala said finding businesses and organizations that have roots in Hawaiian culture was a big challenge when he was first living in Las Vegas. “Economically, there was no way we could own a home back in Hawaii nor raise our son comfortably on the limited salaries we had.” “Our move, like many others, was also to give our own family a better start at life,” said Pu’ukani Sebala, the owner of the Las Vegas-based Hawaiian radio station Pipeline 2 Paradise Radio, said in an email. Paul Pu’ukani Sebala moved his family to Las Vegas 20 years ago from Hawaii to be closer to other relatives and for the lower cost of living. (Daniel Pearson/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Paul recently begin running his radio show full-time out of his home studio in Henderson, as seen on Friday, June 9, 2023. One system, the Dominion Premier/Diebold AccuVote TSx system, is used in 20 states and 23,784 precincts, according to Verified Voting.Paul Pu'ukani Sebala loves to connect the Hawaiian community across the world through his radio station, Pipeline 2 Paradise Radio. Verified Voting, an advocacy group that helped organize the hacking village, said that some of the voting machine models being tested are still used to tally votes across the United States. “Providing conference attendees with unlimited physical access to voting machines, most of which are no longer in use, does not replicate accurate physical and cyber protections established by state and local governments before and on Election Day,” the group said. “It utilizes a pseudo-environment which in no way replicates state election systems, networks or physical security,” the National Association of Secretaries of State said in a statement. Last year a Danish researcher figured out how to take control of a touch-screen voting system used through 2014 in a remote hack that organizers said could work from up to 1,000 feet away.Ī group representing US secretaries of state lauded the goal of bolstering election security but warned that the findings might be skewed. Participants will have a chance to hack into more than five types of voting machines from manufacturers including Elections Systems & Software and Dominion Voting. “They need to be identified and addressed, regardless of the environment in which they are found.” “These vulnerabilities that will be identified over the course of the next three days would, in an actual election, cause mass chaos,” said Jake Braun, one of the village’s organizers. Trump’s national security team last week warned that Russia had launched “pervasive” efforts to interfere in the elections. Organizers have returned ahead of the November elections, in which Democrats hope to take control of the US House of Representatives. The three-day “Voting Village,” which opens in Las Vegas on Friday, also aims to expose vulnerabilities in devices such as digital poll books and memory-card readers.ĭef Con held its first voting village last year after US intelligence agencies concluded the Russian government used hacking in its attempt to support Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy for president. LAS VEGAS – Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacker conventions, will serve as a laboratory for breaking into voting machines this week, extending its efforts to identify potential security flaws in technology that may be used in the November US elections. GOP needs to cut the games and back McCarthy for speaker - or risk handing Dems big win Shocking praise: Howard Stern calls George Santos 'compassionate' How George Soros funds 'fact checkers' to silence dissent Fetterman campaign may have violated finance rules by selling donor list
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