On the drive from Kaimuki to Hawaii Kai, there is only one sign-waver — for Romney.

At Kaiser High School — home of the Cougars — there is no signage to help folks find the polling place. “Do you know where the cafeteria is?” a woman, dragging her son along, asks me. We walk toward the building that most looks like a cafeteria.

A man is taping a sign up on the cafeteria’s exterior that reads “Vote Here.” There are already a handful of people gathering, and they are asked to fill out a Hawaii Republican membership card.

I ask Danita Stonebraker, who is helping to handle polling, whether Gov. Linda Lingle might show up at Kaiser to vote.

“She just might,” says Stonebraker, whose son, Bud is a pastor and former state legislator. “She lives just across the street.”

— Chad Blair