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<br /> <br /> Page 1 of 1 <br /> <br /> <br /> Murashige, Laura <br /> <br /> From: Kaleopono [kaleopono@wave.bicv.net] <br /> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 6:10 AM <br /> To: Hoffmann, Pete; cohmayor@co.hawaii.hi.us; counciltestimony@co.hawaii.hi.us <br /> <br /> Subject: 2% tax set-aside for land preservation <br /> I think the way the petitions have been processed with such picayune requirements and shifting interpretations <br /> and timelines imposed on the hard-working volunteers (I have been one of the signature gatherers), amounts to <br /> childish/adolescent hazing at best ...and blatantly malevolent obstructionism at worst. <br /> <br /> It is very common practice for people to omit suffixes such as street/st., place/pl., highway/hwy., circle/cir., <br /> lane/In., avenue/ave. when writing their addresses. (Is there also a requirement that the suffix be written out in <br /> full, not abbreviated? That would fit the clear pattern of picayune interpretation, too!) <br /> The thoroughfare name itself clearly ought to be sufficient when matching the name against the voter registration <br /> roll to be certain that the signer is not a registered voter with the same name who lives at a different address. <br /> That's the PURPOSE of the requirement, isn't it? Otherwise, just the name on the roll would be sufficient to <br /> determine whether the signer is, in fact, a registered voter! <br /> Yet the County bureaucrats have completely lost sight of the purpose of the requirement, and instead are <br /> interpreting the law absolutely literally... perhaps as an instrument of power-mad, sadistic torture of the rest of us <br /> to be certain we don't forget who actually holds the power and is really running the show. <br /> <br /> Its ridiculous! How can YOU tolerate being associated with such behavior? <br /> I also agree with the point made by the signature-gathering task force leaders that the mail address (which is no <br /> less unique to the signing individual than their physical residence address) should be just as acceptable as the <br /> physical street address for qualifying a voter's signature on the petition in question... indeed, on ANY petition. <br /> <br /> Please stop this nonsense! <br /> <br /> Put the issue of whether two percent of real property tax revenue should be set aside for land preservation every <br /> year, with no cap on the accumulated amount in the fund, on the ballot for all Hawaii County voters to decide in <br /> the next election. <br /> <br /> Steve'Kaleopono' Norris <br /> 808-889-1094 Hawaii <br /> 55-3330 Akoni Pule Highway, Hawi, HI 96719 (registered voter physical residence) <br /> P.O. Box 1657, Kapa'au, HI 96755 (registered voter mail address) <br /> G-1 <br /> G+ <br /> CY> <br /> l~ G <br /> C r <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ~grr!m. No, S 0 <br /> <br /> Ref. To:,, <br /> {l~!E~ Ja1e, ~~J~_ <br /> 7/7/2006 <br />