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reject the second certificate or substitute its own determination of sufficiency of the petition by resolution. You are hereby notified that the review actions of the County Council shall be final, but shall not preclude the filing of a new petition for the same purposes. The above is based on the applicable law, the documents received, the evaluation of the documents conducted by my staff and the following findings. FINDINGS 1. The sufficiency of the petition was determined based upon the provisions of Article XI, Hawaii County Charter; informal written and verbal opinions from the Office of the Corporation Counsel relating to the social security number requirement, the required number of signatures necessary to determine sufficiency, and the validation of signatures; and, to the extent applicable and practicable, the basic procedures used to evaluate nomination papers and qualifying political parties. Every signature line was manually evaluated by staff members from the Election Division of the Office of the County Clerk from May 17-June 5, 2006, and June 16-26, 2006. 2. Section 11-2(c), Hawai`i County Charter, relating to Submission Requirements, reads as follows: Each initiative petition and each referendum petition must be signed by qualified voters of the county equal in number to at least fifteen percent of the total number of persons who voted in the county for the office of the mayor in the most recent second special election, or, if there had not been a second special election, in the last preceding general election. 3. It is determined that the Committee needs 4,846 valid signatures of qualified voters to be deemed sufficient based on 32,305 total votes cast for mayor in the 2004 special election x 15% = 4,846 qualified voters. 2