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only the residence address is required to identify and verify a properly registered voter on a petition. SECTION 2. Article XI, Initiative and Referendum, section 11-4, Hawaii County Charter (2000), is amended to read as follows: "Section 11-4. Initiative and Referendum Petitions: Forms and Sufficiency. Initiative and referendum petitions shall be governed by the rules regarding form and sufficiency set forth in this section, as well as by such other rules as the county council may impose by ordinance, consistent with the provisions and with the spirit and purpose of the charter. (b) For immediate acceptance of petitions, the clerk of the council shall require that: (1) The petitions indicate, by name and address, the five signers who constitute the petitioners' committee for that petition. (2) The petitions indicate the address[,] to which all notices for petitioners' committee are to be sent. (3) The signatures to petitions be filed on papers of uniform size and style and assembled as one instrument. Upon presentation, petitions which reasonably comply with this subsection (a) shall be accepted by the clerk without delay; petitions shall be rejected for non-compliance. (4) Electors signing such petitions shall print their names, add their signatures, residence addresses, and the dates of signing on said petition. (c) For purposes of certification, any petition shall be found insufficient which: (1) Is signed by less than the required number of qualified voters of the county. (2) Proposes, or requests appeal of, an ordinance not subject to the powers of initiative or referendum. (d) Signatures are invalid and petitions insufficient: (1) If signers are not given an opportunity to read the full text of the proposed ordinance under an initiative petition, or the designation and description of the ordinance in question under a referendum petition, and if the full text of a proposed ordinance or ordinance under question is not contained in or attached to each signature paper or set of signature papers of an initiative or referendum petition, respectively, throughout circulation. (2) If affidavits (executed by the circulators for each set of signature papers) are not attached to the papers at the time of filing of petition with the clerk of the council. Each affidavit shall attest to the effect that: a particular individual personally circulated an identifiable set of papers; each paper bears a stated number of signatures; each signature on a paper was affixed in the circulator's presence; each signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name it purports to be. 2