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